7.4 Implementing Cluster Analysis on Simple Data
We now turn our attention to the fundamental steps of the cluster analysis technique. To concentrate on the algorithm, we use a very simple data set. Later, we will apply these same ideas to more complex data. Our example data in this section consists of exam scores for a group of 21 students taking an Introduction to Computer Science course. These scores represent the percentage of correct answers. The range of scores is between 0 and 100.
TABLE 7.1 provides a simple listing of the scores. Our initial observation does not reveal any patterns. We could certainly use our previous work to compute descriptive statistics that might yield a bit more information, but in this case we are interested ...
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