st: -cluster measures- with Gower measure

[Phil Schumm <pschumm@uchicago.edu>]

Hi,

I'm working on a project where I need to match observations from one  
dataset to those from another based on the degree of similarity across  
a set of variables.  The programming is such that it would be  
convenient to use -cluster measures-, but it doesn't appear to work  
with the Gower measure:


. sysuse auto
(1978 Automobile Data)

. cluster measures weight mpg foreign, compare(1) gen(dist) Gower
r(9388);


I haven't had a chance yet to drill down more closely to see what's  
going on, but in the meantime, I thought I'd check to see whether  
anyone else has stumbled across this same problem.  Unless I missed  
it, I don't believe the documentation precludes this combination...


-- Phil

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