Chapter 5
Can You Simplify That? – Data Reduction Techniques
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Section 1
Performing Cluster Analysis Using K-Means Clustering
The standard R package stats provides the function for K-means clustering. We also use the cluster package to plot the results of our cluster analysis. - Define a convenience function to standardize the relevant variables - Use the convenience function to standardize the variables of interest - Perform K-means clustering for a given value of K