Ruspini Data

The Ruspini data set, consisting of 75 points in four groups that is popular for illustrating clustering techniques.

data(ruspini)

Format

A data frame with 75 observations on 2 variables giving the x and y coordinates of the points, respectively.

Source

E. H. Ruspini (1970) Numerical methods for fuzzy clustering. Inform. Sci. 2, 319--350.

References

see those in agnes.

Examples

data(ruspini)

## Plot similar to Figure 4 in Stryuf et al (1996)
if (FALSE) plot(pam(ruspini, 4), ask = TRUE)
plot(pam(ruspini, 4))

## Plot similar to Figure 6 in Stryuf et al (1996)
plot(fanny(ruspini, 5))