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Re: st: Books on clustering
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No, they aren't the same. Cluster analysis is a statistical method (or
methods) that seek to identify clusters in a dataset based on some measure
of the distance between observations. In contrast, the analysis of
clustered data (e.g., through the cluster() option in a Stata command) can
arise a wide variety of problems and refers to known groupings in the data
where often you are looking to adjust standard errors to account for the
lack of independence in the observations within each group.
Michael Blasnik
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Trubisz" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 4:12 PM
Subject: Re: st: Books on clustering
OK...I plead ignorance here.
Isn't the 'analysis of clustered data' the same as 'cluster analysis'?
Joe
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