<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:title>PD-Clustering and Related Methods</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package FPDclustering version 2.3.5</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>CRAN Task View: Cluster (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=Cluster)</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Probabilistic distance clustering (PD-clustering) is an iterative, distribution-free, probabilistic clustering method. PD-clustering assigns units to a cluster according to their probability of membership under the constraint that the product of the probability and the distance of each point to any cluster center is a constant. PD-clustering is a flexible method that can be used with elliptical clusters, outliers, or noisy data. PDQ is an extension of the algorithm for clusters of different sizes. GPDC and TPDC use a dissimilarity measure based on densities. Factor PD-clustering (FPDC) is a factor clustering method that involves a linear transformation of variables and a cluster optimizing the PD-clustering criterion. It works on high-dimensional data sets.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: ThreeWay,mvtnorm,R (&gt;= 4.1.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: ExPosition, cluster,rootSolve, MASS, klaR, GGally, ggplot2,
ggeasy</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Cristina Tortora &lt;grikris1@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Cristina Tortora [aut, cre, cph],
  Noe Vidales [aut],
  Francesco Palumbo [aut],
  Tina Kalra [aut],
  Paul D. McNicholas [fnd]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2025-03-06</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=FPDclustering</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.FPDclustering</dc:identifier>
</oai_dc:dc>
