Cluster analysis /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Aldenderfer, Mark S. (συγγραφέας.)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Blashfield, Roger K., 1944- (συγγραφέας.)
• Μορφή: Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, 1984.
• Σειρά: Quantitative applications in the social sciences no. 07-044.
• Θέματα: Κοινωνικές επιστήμες > Στατιστικές μέθοδοι; Συσταδοποίηση; Ηλεκτρονικά βιβλία

This book is designed to be an introduction to cluster analysis for those with no background and for those who need an up-to-date and systematic guide through the maze of concepts, techniques, and algorithms associated with the clustering data. The authors begin by discussing measures of similarity,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction. How clustering methods are used
• Data sets to be used as examples
• A few cautions about cluster analysis
• 2. Similarity measures. Terminology
• The concept of similarity
• The choice of variables
• Similarity measures
• 3. A review of clustering methods. On the nature of clusters
• Hierarchical agglomerative methods
• Iterative partitioning methods
• Factor analysis variants
• Other methods
• Determining the number of clusters
• Comparing clustering methods
• 4. Validation techniques. Cophenetic correlation
• Significance tests on variables used to create clusters
• Replication
• Significance tests on external variables
• Monte Carlo procedures
• 5. Cluster analysis software and the literature on clustering
• Collections of subroutines and algorithms
• Statistical packages containing clustering software
• Cluster analysis packages
• Simple cluster analysis programs
• The literature on cluster analysis
• Guide to reporting cluster analysis studies
• Appendix. Example data sets (burial data)
• Notes
• References
• About the authors.