Date:         Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:57:53 -0500
Reply-To:     Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Arthur Tabachneck <art297@NETSCAPE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Cluster Analysis with Binary & continuous variables
Comments: To: Phil Jackson <arlando20002000@YAHOO.COM>

Phil,

The SPSS TWOSTEP process was designed to simultaneously handle continuous
and categorical variables.  As such, since I'd like to know the answer,
I'll restate the question: does SAS have a comparable option or feature?

Art
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On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:49:34 -0500, Phil Jackson
<arlando20002000@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

>Is their a procedure or methodology in SAS where you can perform a cluster
>analysis with binary and continuous variables?  It appears that proc
>cluster is for continuous variables only?  I know that SPSS has the
>TWOSTEP process that can handle this situation, but haven't been able to
>find any such references with SAS that uses a mixture of binary and
>continuous variables.
>
>Thanks,
>Phil