Finds the Archetypal Analysis of a Data Frame

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Documentation for package ‘archetypal’ version 1.3.1

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archetypal-package	Finds the Archetypal Analysis of a Data Frame
AbsoluteTemperature	Global Absolute Temperature data set for Northern Hemisphere 1969-2013
align_archetypes_from_list	Align archetypes from a list either by the most frequent found or by using a given archetype
archetypal	archetypal: Finds the archetypal analysis of a data frame by using a variant of the PCHA algorithm
check_Bmatrix	Function which checks B matrix of Archetypal Analysis Y ~ A B Y in order to find the used rows for creating each archetype and the relevant used weights.
dirichlet_sample	Function which performs Dirichlet sampling
find_closer_points	Function which finds the data points that are closer to the archetypes during all iterations of the algorithm PCHA
find_furthestsum_points	Function which finds the furthest sum points in order to be used as initial solution in archetypal analysis
find_optimal_kappas	Function for finding the optimal number of archetypes
find_outmost_convexhull_points	Function which finds the outermost convex hull points in order to be used as initial solution in archetypal analysis
find_outmost_partitioned_convexhull_points	Function which finds the outermost convex hull points after making np samples and finding convex hull for each of them.
find_outmost_points	Function which finds the outermost points in order to be used as initial solution in archetypal analysis
find_outmost_projected_convexhull_points	Function which finds the outermost projected convex hull points in order to be used as initial solution in archetypal analysis
find_pcha_optimal_parameters	Finds the optimal updating parameters to be used for the PCHA algorithm
FurthestSum	Application of FurthestSum algorithm in order to find an initial solution for Archetypal Analysis
gallupGPS6	Gallup Global Preferences Study processed data set of six variables
grouped_resample	Function for performing simple or Dirichlet resampling
kappa_tools	Compute kappa tools for data dimensionality analysis
plot.archetypal	Plot an object of the class archetypal.
plot.kappa_tools	Plot an object of the class kappa_tools
plot.study_AAconvergence	Plot an object of the class study_AAconvergence
plot_archs	A function for plotting arechetypes
print.archetypal	Print an object of the class archetypal.
study_AAconvergence	Function which studies the convergence of Archetypal Analysis when using the PCHA algorithm
summary.archetypal	Summary for an object of the class archetypal.
wd2	2D data set for demonstration purposes
wd25	2D data set created by 5 points for demonstration purposes
wd3	3D data set for demonstration purposes