Hopkins.index {comato}

Non-randomness of data

Description

Hopkins.index calculates the Hopkins index that can be used as an indicator of the non-randomness of data prior to clustering.

Usage

Hopkins.index(data)

Arguments

data

A numeric matrix.

Value

The Hopkins index as a numeric value

See Also

The index is described in, e.g.: Han, Jiawei; Kamber, Micheline (2010): Data mining. Concepts and techniques. 2nd ed., Amsterdam: Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann (The Morgan Kaufmann series in data management systems).

Examples

## Not run: 
#Random data generation, 10 dimensions, 500 observations, 2 clusters, 
#Multivariate-Bernoulli distributed
require("gtools")
data = c()
p = 0.0
for (i in 1:2)
{
temp = c()
for (j in 1:10)
temp = cbind(temp, rbinom(250, 1, p+(i-1)*0.5+(0.025*i)*j))  
data=rbind(data, temp)
}
data = data[permute(1:500),]

Hopkins.index(data)

## End(Not run)