9. Cluster Analysis: Further Issues
Chapter 8, “Cluster Analysis: The Basics,” covers some introductory aspects of cluster analysis and discusses two fundamentally different approaches: linkage or hierarchical methods, and centroid distances methods, particularly the popular k-means procedures. The focus in Chapter 8 is on the mechanics of each approach.
This chapter focuses exclusively on the k-means approach. An Excel workbook named Kmeans Cluster Analysis.xls accompanies this chapter, and it contains code that performs a k-means analysis on data that you supply. The first portion of this chapter walks you through the steps involved in using the workbook ...
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