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Industrial Statistics with Minitab
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Industrial Statistics with Minitab

by Pere Grima Cintas, Lluis Marco Almagro, Xavier Tort-Martorell Llabres
October 2012
Beginner
420 pages
9h 37m
English
Wiley
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24.3 Cluster Analysis for Observations

Continue working with file LATIN_AMERICA.MTW. Now, the aim is to divide the countries in groups (clusters) of similar characteristics according to the information available.

Stat > Multivariate > Cluster Observations

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Take a look at the output in the Session window (blank lines have been added in order to insert comments).

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The graph shows the sequence of the clusters formation. The first one was that of observations 2 and 14 since these have the highest degree of similarity (least distance using the selected criterion). The second is the one of observations 7 and 12. The third one consists of the first cluster and observation 9, etc.

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Some changes with respect to the default values:

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24.3.1 Storage

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Having identified to which cluster each ...

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