Distance between clusters

SWEETSAS — Sun, 29 May 2016 19:14:01 GMT

Data have1;
Input Sampleid reps id $ a  b;
Datalines ;
1 1 00-01 5 3
1 1 00-02 4 6
1 1 00-03 6 4
1 1 00-06 4 6
1 2 00-02 4 6 
1 2 00-03 6 4
1 2 00-04 7 5
1 2 00-05 9 2
1 3 00-01 5 3
1 3 00-02 4 6
1 3 00-05 9 2
1 3 00-10 7 4
1 4 00-03 6 4
1 4 00-05 9 2
1 4 00-09 7 3
1 4 00-10 7 4
1 5 00-03 6 4
1 5 00-04 7 5
1 5 00-07 5 8
1 5 00-09 7 3
1 6 00-02 4 6
1 6 00-03 6 4
1 6 00-05 9 2
1 6 00-10 7 4

Data have2;
Input Sampleid reps id $ a  b;
Datalines ;
1 1 00-01 5 3
1 1 00-02 4 6
1 1 00-03 6 4
1 1 00-06 4 6
;run;

Given two data sets HAVE1 and HAVE2 above, is it possible to compute distance between each of the REPS in HAVE1 with HAVE2 using FASTCLAUST--or any other SAS procedure? The distance is to formed using variables A and B. The number of distance so derived will be equal to number of REPS in HAVE1. Since, the are 6 REPS, there should be six values of distances, signfigying distance from each of REPS in HAVE1 to the data set HAVE2.

Thanks,

Jack

Re: Distance between clusters

Ksharp — Mon, 30 May 2016 01:52:53 GMT

PROC FASTCLAUST should perform K-means algorithm , therefore you can't guarantee it will split the data into two groups as your data showed, so you can't get the distance by FASTCLAUST ,unless these two group data are apparetly different to each other.

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Distance between clusters

Re: Distance between clusters