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The Use of Cluster Analysis in Typological Research on Community College Students
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Bahr, Peter Riley; Bielby, Rob; House, Emily – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2011
One useful and increasingly popular method of classifying students is known commonly as cluster analysis. The variety of techniques that comprise the cluster analytic family are intended to sort observations (for example, students) within a data set into subsets (clusters) that share similar characteristics and differ in meaningful ways from other…
Descriptors: College Students, Classification, Multivariate Analysis, Community Colleges