Statistical Computing Activity #7
- Read in CBJskaters1819.csv that Meg Ellingwood shared with us during her presentation on November 16
- Meg focused on clustering for points and blocks during her presentation. Pick two other variables (e.g., goals (G) and hits (HIT), assists (A) and goals (G), or some other pair) and apply the hierarchical and k-means clustering methods that Meg presented to you. Note: you can use Meg's favorite method of minimax linkage (a third clustering method), but you are not required to use this clustering method in this activity.
- Present the two graphical summaries of the different clustering methods. Do the two methods provide similar clusters for your two variables? Explain.
- Change k from 3 to 2 with the k-means clustering method. Which value of k do your prefer for your variables? Why?