Thank you Nick. But I am not sure that helps. Both
variables are discrete taking the values 1, 2 and 3.
(I specific 3 clusters). Every value of -C1- appears
for every value of -cluster-. I am at lost.
| c1
cluster | 1 2 3 |
Total
-----------+---------------------------------+----------
1 | 71 90 17 |
178
2 | 4 200 596 |
800
3 | 123 164 5 |
292
-----------+---------------------------------+----------
Total | 198 454 618 |
1,270
> --- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > A scatter plot of the two variables may
> > throw light on this.
> >
> > Nick
> > [email protected]
> >
> > Ricardo Ovaldia
> >
> > > This may be a very simple question, but I can't
> > find
> > > the answer. Doing a cluster analysis I typed:
> > >
> > > . cluster kmeans q4_*, k(3) name(c1)
> s(kr(67492))
> > >
> > > I get two new variables -c1- and -cluster-.
> These
> > are
> > > different. Could someone please tell me what is
> > the
> > > difference between these two variables? Which
> one
> > is
> > > the cluster indicator.
> >
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>
>
> Ricardo Ovaldia, MS
> Statistician
> Oklahoma City, OK
>
>
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