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Cluster Analysis: Basic Concepts and. Algorithms. Cluster analysis divides data into groups (clusters) that are meaningful, useful, or both. If meaningful groups are the goal, then the clusters should capture the natural structure of the data. In some cases, however, cluster analysis is only a useful starting point for other
clustering nearly similar entities without requiring exact similarity. P Assess relationships within a single set of variables; no attempt is made to define the relationship between a set of independent variables and one or more dependent variables. Important Characteristics of. Cluster Analysis Techniques. 4. What's a Cluster?
Cluster Analysis. Keywords Agglomerative and divisive clustering Б Chebychev distance Б. City-block distance Б Clustering variables Б Dendrogram Б Distance matrix Б. Euclidean distance Б Hierarchical and partitioning methods Б Icicle diagram Б k-means Б Matching coefficients Б Profiling clusters Б Two-step clustering.
Cluster Analysis. •C.A is a set of techniques which Classify, based on observed characteristics, an heterogeneous aggregate of people, objects or variables, into more homogeneous groups. •C.A is useful to identify market segments, competitors in market structure analysis, matched cities in test market etc. Q: Why do we
Similar to one another within the same cluster. – Dissimilar to the objects in other clusters. • Cluster analysis. – Grouping a set of data objects into clusters. • Clustering is unsupervised classification: no predefined classes. • Typical applications. – As a stand-alone tool to get insight into data distribution. – As a preprocessing
Chapter 15. Cluster analysis. 15.1 INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY. The objective of cluster analysis is to assign observations to groups (clus- ters") so that observations within each group are similar to one another with respect to variables or attributes of interest, and the groups them- selves stand apart from one another.
SPSS has three different procedures that can be used to cluster data: hierarchical cluster analysis, k-means cluster, and two-step cluster. They are all described in this chapter. If you have a large data file (even 1,000 cases is large for clustering) or a mixture of continuous and categorical variables, you should use the SPSS

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