From Spider-Man to Hero — Archetypal Analysis in R

Archetypal analysis has the aim to represent observations in a multivariate data setas convex combinations of extremal points. This approach was introduced by Cutler andBreiman (1994); they dened the concrete problem, laid out the theoretical foundationsand presented an algorithm written in Fortran....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Manuel J. A. Eugster, Friedrich Leisch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2009-04-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
Subjects:
R
Online Access:http://www.jstatsoft.org/v30/i08/paper