Partitioners are functions that tell the partition algorithm 1) what to try to reduce 2) how to measure how much information is lost from the reduction and 3) how to reduce the data. In partition, functions that handle 1) are called directors, functions that handle 2) are called metrics, and functions that handle 3) are called reducers. partition has a number of pre-specified partitioners for agglomerative data reduction. Custom partitioners can be created with as_partitioner().

Pass partitioner objects to the partitioner argument of partition().

part_icc() uses the following direct-measure-reduce approach:

part_icc(spearman = FALSE)

Arguments

spearman

logical. Use Spearman's correlation for distance matrix?

Value

a partitioner

See also

Examples

set.seed(123)
df <- simulate_block_data(c(3, 4, 5), lower_corr = .4, upper_corr = .6, n = 100)

# fit partition using part_icc()
partition(df, threshold = .6, partitioner = part_icc())
#> Partitioner:
#>    Director: Minimum Distance (Pearson) 
#>    Metric: Intraclass Correlation 
#>    Reducer: Scaled Mean
#> 
#> Reduced Variables:
#> 2 reduced variables created from 5 observed variables
#> 
#> Mappings:
#> reduced_var_1 = {block3_x1, block3_x5}
#> reduced_var_2 = {block2_x1, block2_x2, block2_x3}
#> 
#> Minimum information:
#> 0.627