R: Bertin's Characteristics of Townships

Townships {seriation} | R Documentation

## 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)

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