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Townships

Bertin's Characteristics of Townships

Description

This data contains nine characteristics for 16 townships. The data set was used by Bertin (1981) to illustrate that the conciseness of presentation can be improved by seriating the rows and columns.

Usage

data("Townships")

Format

A matrix with 16 0-1 variables (columns) indicating the presence (1) or absence (0) of characteristics of townships (rows).

Author(s)

Michael Hahsler

References

Bertin, J. (1981): Graphics and Graphic Information Processing. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter.

Examples

data("Townships")

## original data
pimage(Townships)
criterion(Townships)


## seriated data
order <- seriate(Townships, method = "BEA", control = list(rep = 5))
pimage(Townships, order)
criterion(Townships, order)

seriation

Infrastructure for Ordering Objects Using Seriation

v1.2-9

GPL-3

Authors

Michael Hahsler [aut, cre, cph], Christian Buchta [aut, cph], Kurt Hornik [aut, cph], Fionn Murtagh [ctb, cph], Michael Brusco [ctb, cph], Stephanie Stahl [ctb, cph], Hans-Friedrich Koehn [ctb, cph]

Initial release

2020-09-29