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Direct linkBrusco, Michael J. – Psychological Methods, 2004
A number of important applications require the clustering of binary data sets. Traditional nonhierarchical cluster analysis techniques, such as the popular K-means algorithm, can often be successfully applied to these data sets. However, the presence of masking variables in a data set can impede the ability of the K-means algorithm to recover the…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Multivariate Analysis, Statistical Data, Statistical Analysis
