Hierarchical cluster validation, is it possible?

[MinLuke]

Hello everyone, When performing netAnalyze() using clustMethod="hierachical" is there a way to statistically validate the cluster subdivision within the network, such as a correspondent of permanova for PCA for example? Thank you all Lucy

[stefpeschel]

Hey Lucy For hierarchical clustering, the functions hclust and cutree from stats package are used within netAnalyze() (note that they are applied to the dissimilarity matrix). Further functionality is not implemented and would need to be done outside NetCoMi. Best, Stefanie

[MinLuke]

Thanks a lot Stefanie for the support