Package: DiscreteGapStatistic
Type: Package
Title: An Extension of the Gap Statistic for Ordinal/Categorical Data
Version: 1.1.2
Authors@R: c(
   person("Jeffrey", "Miecznikowski", email="jcm38@buffalo.edu", role = c("aut")),
   person("Eduardo", "Cortes", email="ecortesg@buffalo.edu", 
   role = c("aut", "cre"), 
   comment = c(ORCID = '0000-0002-0966-6488')) )
Description: The gap statistic approach is extended to estimate the number of clusters for categorical response format data. This approach and accompanying software is designed to be used with the output of any clustering algorithm and with distances specifically designed for categorical (i.e. multiple choice) or ordinal survey response data.
URL: https://github.com/ecortesgomez/DiscreteGapStatistic
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Imports: cultevo, magrittr, utils, ggplot2, pheatmap, dplyr,
        Polychrome, RColorBrewer, reshape2, tidyr, ComplexHeatmap,
        cluster, stats
Suggests: kableExtra, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Depends: R (>= 4.2.0)
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2025-03-06 03:14:05 UTC; ED33454
Author: Jeffrey Miecznikowski [aut],
  Eduardo Cortes [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0966-6488>)
Maintainer: Eduardo Cortes <ecortesg@buffalo.edu>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2025-03-06 03:30:02 UTC
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