Many simulation studies comparing various methods of cluster analysis have been performed. In these studies, artificial data sets containing known clusters are produced using pseudo-random-number ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Care must be exercised when hierarchical methods of cluster analysis are used. Dendrograms may not be unique, and certain methods are prone to ...

To see how various clustering methods differ, you must examine a more difficult problem than that of the previous example. The following data set is similar to the first except that the three clusters ...