cluster analysis

I did a study where I used 4 variables in a cluster analysis and came up with 5 natural groupings of the respondents. Now my client wants me to create an Excel typing tool for future respondents where they will put in the answers to the 4 variables (3 categorical, 1 continuous) and the tool...

Hi all, I used self organizing map to cluster factor scores. I had 21 variables for analyze but I used mean scores of factor scores for subscales (4 subscales) and at the end, I have 4 clusters. Some factor score means are negative. How am I supposed to interpret these negative factor scores?

down votefavorite (Unfurtuntely i can't upload the excel file ,can't find the button) Please im begging anybody’s help because im an mba student in global hospitality and tourism management and my teacher is unable to help I have purchase the spss premium version so I can use all its features I...

Can anyone help me to figure out how to find the number of clusters I have in a hierarchical cluster analysis, which I'm doing in SPSS please? I heard that Ward's method was the best to use to begin looking at how many clusters there are in a data set. I have around 200 participants and am...

Hello everybody, My team and I have an assignment to run a conjoint analysis with SPSS. So far, we were able to make the orthogonal design to generate 16 cards and run a survey with respondents. Then, we were able to run the conjoint analysis in SPSS to get the Utility for each attribute...

This is the situation. First, I performed factor analysis on 20 continuous variables, and reduced those to 10 factors using SPSS. Then, I did k-means cluster analysis and through trial & error came up with a 6 cluster solution. What I now need to accomplish is being able to predict which of...

I already have a distance matrix (1609*1609) and each distance is between 0~1. I want to cluster 1609 items into natural groups by using Twostep cluster in SPSS. I want to use the distance matrix as input for Twostep cluster analysis. How to modify the syntax to do that? Or I cannot do it...

Hello everyone, I tried to do cluster analysis for my class, but I'm not sure how to interpret the plot I got. Can anyone help me with that please? Thanks, Tomer.

I have a very large data set on booking price of the hotel packages which is containing approximately 10 columns and 100,000 rows. Majority of the variables are categorical here while there is only one continuous variable (i.e. price). Categorical variables are Cabin class, Board basis, In...

Hello everyone, I quite new to cluster analysis, but read through a fair amount of material, still I'm puzzled with the following task. Performing cluster analysis on my customers, using the follwing data set SubjectN; Week1 Purchase; Week2 Purchase;.....; Week12 Purchase These...

I am investigating the effects of age and exercise in protein expression in mouse motor neurons. I have four groups each with a limited number of measurements associated with it. Group (number of mice) Young (6) Young exercised (3) Old...

Hi....I have a data set made up of 34 indicators(variables) on 25 companies for 10 yrs. I need to cluster the companies according to their similarity to the variables & track their movement over 10 yrs. The variables are quantitative and are expressed as a %... How do I go about it with SPSS...

hey there. Just wondering if anyone could lend their expertise on cluster analysis. Basically I am trying to see if I can find 5-10 customer segments based on shopping habits. I have a table (single customer view) of 10,000 randomly selected customers along with a column for each category...

Hi I am a linguistics researcher and trying to use cluster analysis in SPSS. After reading some tutorials I have found that determining number of clusters using hierarchical method is best before going to K-means method, for example. Now I am trying to find out cut-off point in output table of...

Hi Everyone, I am having some serious problems with my analyses and was hoping someone might be able to help me out! I have a sample of 95 participants, who have been classified into three groups using a cluster analysis. I used hierarchical cluster analysis for this, and had 26 variables...

Hello, Struggling a bit here, hope I chose the right forum place. I am trying to cluster cells (1x1km) over a specific area. Each cell is composed of various habitats defined by a code. (Each habitat consists of 3 parameters, so a habitat code looks like e.g. 1-3-15. There are around 100...

I'm conducting an analysis where I need to group my respondents to interest clusters. I have 34 interests and respondents could select multiple items. All these variables are binary, so I recoded all answers to 1/0. I'm aware that conducting hierarchical cluster analysis on binary data is not...

Hi guys Im working on a text mining/clustering project and am trying to create a table which contains number of clusters as rows and 6 columns representing the following 6 metrics: max.diameter, min.separation, average.within,average.between,avg.silwidth,dunn. I need to create the tables for 3...

Yet again I have run into another wall. I am doing a project for uni and have came across a problem, I am looking to build a graph with PCA scores (2 components, so pca1 VS pca2). I also need to label the scores with what group they belong to, after having done a cluster analysis. Is this even...

I am only new to STATA and was wondering once I have completed a PCA on my dataset, how do I see the scores on the dataset? (The data tab at the top beside the graphics tab) Also while I am here, after completing a cluster analysis and dendrogram how do I reduce it down to 6 groups (6 groups is...