RE: st: Cluster analysis variables - bug?

[n j cox <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk>]

I am not clear why your messages appear twice [this
one] or three times [previous one].

I can't see your data. It helps to discuss problems using
datasets that everyone can play with. I don't really
care two hoots about those auto data, but they do serve
a very useful purpose.

I answered your previous email briefly because I was very busy
with something else, but a scatter plot answered the question w.r.t. the 
one example I tried with the auto data.

It was something like

. cluster kmeans mpg weight, k(2) name(c1)

Otherwise, bug claims are difficult to discuss without specifics
of precisely what you think is wrong. Output you don't understand
is not necessarily buggy.

I am not an expert on -cluster-, so you may need to wait for
someone who is.

Nick
n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk

Ricardo Ovaldia

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 <n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> > A scatter plot of the two variables may
> > throw light on this.
> >
> > Nick
> > n.j.cox@durham.ac.uk
> >
> > 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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