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fpc

Flexible Procedures for Clustering

v2.2-14 · Jan 13, 2026 · GPL

Description

Various methods for clustering and cluster validation. Fixed point clustering. Linear regression clustering. Clustering by merging Gaussian mixture components. Symmetric and asymmetric discriminant projections for visualisation of the separation of groupings. Cluster validation statistics for distance based clustering including corrected Rand index. Standardisation of cluster validation statistics by random clusterings and comparison between many clustering methods and numbers of clusters based on this. Cluster-wise cluster stability assessment. Methods for estimation of the number of clusters: Calinski-Harabasz, Tibshirani and Walther's prediction strength, Fang and Wang's bootstrap stability. Gaussian/multinomial mixture fitting for mixed continuous/categorical variables. Variable-wise statistics for cluster interpretation. DBSCAN clustering. Interface functions for many clustering methods implemented in R, including estimating the number of clusters with kmeans, pam and clara. Modality diagnosis for Gaussian mixtures. For an overview see package?fpc.

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Comparing ‘fpc-Ex.Rout’ to ‘fpc-Ex.Rout.save’:
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Dependencies Reverse dependencies MASS cluster mclust flexmix prabclus class diptest robustbase kernlab wskm AnimalSequences Canek DIscBIO FADPclust ICSClust NIMAA RaceID SPARTAAS beadplexr bootcluster cclustr clusEvol clusterMI clustrd +31 more reverse deps fpc

Version History

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new 2.2-14 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.2-14 ← 2.2-13 diff Jan 13, 2026
updated 2.2-13 ← 2.2-12 diff Sep 23, 2024
updated 2.2-12 ← 2.2-11 diff Apr 29, 2024
updated 2.2-11 ← 2.2-10 diff Dec 14, 2023
updated 2.2-10 ← 2.2-9 diff Jan 6, 2023
updated 2.2-9 ← 2.2-8 diff Dec 5, 2020
updated 2.2-8 ← 2.2-7 diff Sep 18, 2020
updated 2.2-7 ← 2.2-6 diff Jun 25, 2020
updated 2.2-6 ← 2.2-5 diff Jun 23, 2020
updated 2.2-5 ← 2.2-4 diff Feb 3, 2020
updated 2.2-4 ← 2.2-3 diff Jan 16, 2020
updated 2.2-3 ← 2.2-2 diff Jun 27, 2019
updated 2.2-2 ← 2.2-1 diff Jun 6, 2019
updated 2.2-1 ← 2.1-11.2 diff May 20, 2019