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Date:         Thu, 22 Feb 1996 18:03:20 GMT
Reply-To:     "Russell T. Gould" <RGOULD@IMAGI.NET>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Russell T. Gould" <RGOULD@IMAGI.NET>
Organization: Southern Methodist University and University of Alaska Fairbanks
Subject:      Re: cluster analysis with dichotomous variable

Joe Wheaton <wheaton.3@OSU.EDU> wrote:

 
>I would like to cluster subjects on a pattern of responses to a set of
>dichotomous variables. That is, I have subjects with yes/no responses to 13
>variables and I want to cluster them so that all those with similar patterns
>would be in the same cluster.

 
>Will the cosine similarity measure produce this type of output?

 
Try simple matching coefficients.  They will produce a nice distance
matrix, and, well, they are simple to compute.

 
Russell

 
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               Russell T. Gould
               Fairbanks, Alaska
            fnrtg@aurora.alaska.edu
                rgould@imagi.net
              rgould@polarnet.com

 
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