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Re: st: cluster analysis validation


From   Nick Cox <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: cluster analysis validation
Date   Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:04:54 +0100

Any user of Ward's method may wish to read the obituary of Joe H. Ward Jr at

http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2011/08/01/obitaug11/



On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Dasinger, Lisa <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Paul -  Thank you for your response.  I have been using -cluster
> wardslinkage-, which produces the same result as long as the same
> dataset is used.  It sounds like you are talking about kmeans.  In any
> case, I will look into your program as it may also be helpful here.
>
> Lisa
>
>
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:41:56 -0400
> From: Paul Millar <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: st: cluster analysis validation
>
> Lisa,
>
> Cluster analysis is empirical - the group assignments are based on
> minimizing the "distance" between cases, given the number of groups.
> So a different sample entails different groups.  If you run cluster
> analysis many times on the same data you will also get different
> results for the same data (because the starting case is different,
> assigned randomly using -set seed-).  I have written a routine that
> tests the reliability of a groups assignment by sampling the group
> assignments and then estimating whether the probability of assignment
> in a particular group is > 0.5 in the population of group assignments.
>  See -help clustpop- after -ssc install clustpop-
>
> You can also do this after pooling the data, as suggested earlier.
>
> - - Paul
>
>
> Lisa Dasinger, Ph.D.
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