st: About Cluster Analysis

[Jon Ebeling <jebeling@rocko.lab.csuchico.edu>]

Can anyone direct me to a few articles or a book that takes a critical 
view of the methods in Cluster Analysis. It seems to me it is derived 
from the older form of positioning persons using Q sorts. Is this 
correct and if it is, what are the methodological problems in the use of 
Clustering methods?

Thanks, if you wish just send the items directly to me, unless you feel 
there are others who might be interested.

Jon S. Ebeling, Ph.D.,
Emeritus Professor of Political Science
CSU, Chico




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