Getting Things in Order: An Introduction to the R Package seriation

Seriation, i.e., finding a suitable linear order for a set of objects given data and a loss or merit function, is a basic problem in data analysis. Caused by the problem's combinatorial nature, it is hard to solve for all but very small sets. Nevertheless, both exact solution methods and heuris...

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Main Authors: Michael Hahsler, Kurt Hornik, Christian Buchta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2008-02-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Subjects:
R
Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/v25/i03/paper