mix {nexus}

Mixed-Mode Analysis

Description

Mixes chemical and petrographic matrices.

Usage

mix(x, y, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'matrix,matrix'
mix(x, y, lambda = 1, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'dist,dist'
mix(x, y, mu = 0.5)

Arguments

x

A matrix of chemical compositional data or a dissimilarity matrix for these chemical compositional data.

y

A matrix of coded mineralogical binary data or a dissimilarity matrix for these mineralogical data.

...

Extra parameters to be passed to cluster::daisy().

lambda

A length-one numeric vector giving a weighting factor.

mu

A length-one numeric vector that lies between 0 and 1 giving the mixing parameter.

Value

A stats::dist object.

Methods (by class)

• mix(x = matrix, y = matrix): First approach of mixed-mode analysis.

• mix(x = dist, y = dist): Second approach of mixed-mode analysis.

Note

Experimental.

Author(s)

N. Frerebeau

References

Baxter, M. J., Beardah, C. C., Papageorgiou, I., Cau, M. A., Day, P. M. & Kilikoglou, V. (2008). On Statistical Approaches to the Study of Ceramic Artefacts Using Geochemical and Petrographic Data. Archaeometry, 50(1): 142-157. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4754.2007.00359.x.

Beardah, C. C., Baxter, M. J., Papageorgiou, I. & Cau, M. A. (2003). "Mixed-Mode" Approaches to the Grouping of Ceramic Artefacts Using S-Plus. In M. Doerr and A. Sarris, The Digital Heritage of Archaeology, p. 261-266. Athens: Archive of Monuments and Publications, Hellenic Ministry of Culture.

Gower, J. C. (1971). A general coefficient of similarity and some of its properties. Biometrics, 27(4):857-874. doi:10.2307/2528823.

Examples

## Prepare chemical data
data("chemistry")
major <- c("Fe2O3", "Al2O3", "MnO", "P2O5", "TiO2", "MgO", "CaO", "Na2O", "K2O", "SiO2")
chem <- chemistry[-1, major]

## Prepare petrographic data
data("petrography")
petro <- petrography[-c(7, 8), -1]
petro <- cdt(petro) # Get the complete disjunctive table

## First approach
mix1 <- mix(as.matrix(chem), as.matrix(petro), lambda = 2)
mds1 <- stats::cmdscale(mix1) # Multi-Dimensional Scaling
plot(mds1)