In the stata files on cluster analysis, the following example is given:
"The wclub dataset contains answers from 30 women to 35 yes–no questions. The variables are described in example 3 of [MV] clustermat. We are interested in seeing how weighted-average linkage clustering will cluster the 35 variables (instead of the observations).
From these 30 women, we see that the biog (enjoy reading biographies) and hist (enjoy reading history) questions were most closely related. bird (have a bird) seems to be the least related to the other variables. It merges last into the supergroup containing the remaining variables."
When this type of cluster analysis is done, does this mean that women who enjoy biographies and history are the msot similar? Can these question groupings be thought of groups of women? PDF Linked below. TIA-CJ
https://www.stata.com/manuals/mvclusterlinkage.pdf
"The wclub dataset contains answers from 30 women to 35 yes–no questions. The variables are described in example 3 of [MV] clustermat. We are interested in seeing how weighted-average linkage clustering will cluster the 35 variables (instead of the observations).
From these 30 women, we see that the biog (enjoy reading biographies) and hist (enjoy reading history) questions were most closely related. bird (have a bird) seems to be the least related to the other variables. It merges last into the supergroup containing the remaining variables."
When this type of cluster analysis is done, does this mean that women who enjoy biographies and history are the msot similar? Can these question groupings be thought of groups of women? PDF Linked below. TIA-CJ
https://www.stata.com/manuals/mvclusterlinkage.pdf
