Date:         Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:28:19 -0400
Reply-To:     Dan Zetu <dzetu@hotmail.com>
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From:         Dan Zetu <dzetu@hotmail.com>
Subject:      Re: Clustering problem with 1 and 0s
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You can use hierarchical clustering with Jaccard coefficient as the measure
of similarity. I am pretty much sure SPSS has this capability built-in.

Dan


>From: OZGU GILL <ozgu35@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: OZGU GILL <ozgu35@yahoo.com>
>To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Clustering problem with 1 and 0s
>Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:13:11 -0700
>
>Hi there,
>
>   I have data for 75 cases and 19 variables, All variable values are 1 or
>zero meaning either that information is there or not. Plus these 19
>variables are coming from 3 main variables. Type has 9 variables, options
>has 4 variables and provisions has 6 variables. We would like to identify
>the similarities among the cases. Let say Cases with numbers 1, 5, 9, 11,
>43, 50, 60 show the same characteristics. What would be the best way to
>cluster them? Thanks in advance.
>
>   Ozgu
>
>
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