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From   "Herve STOLOWY" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: Cluster analysis - cluster kmeans-
Date   Fri, 11 May 2007 22:44:05 +0200

Dear Statalisters:

I am not familiar with cluster analysis and don't have an easy access to the manual on this topic. However, I have a group of 21 observations with one variable (a score) and would like to create three "homogeneous" groups.

I found the -cluster kmeans- command. Here are my command lines:

gsort - finance_aggregate
cluster kmeans finance_aggregate, k(3)

Each time I run these commands, I get a different result (i.e., a different clustering: the three groups are different). I looked at the help file but don't understand. (It might be related to the start option but I am not sure).

Is there a way to obtain the same result everytime?

Best regards

Herve Stolowy


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