Re: Presenting Euclidean Distances

Posted by David Marso on Jul 18, 2012; 11:29am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Presenting-Euclidean-Distances-tp5714256p5714265.html

Nobody wants to stare at a 100x100 table .  Even if such a person existed the table would be uninterpretable.   Natural ways of presenting such would be through a dendogram (see CLUSTER command which reads the previously generated distance matrix created in PROXIMITIES ).  I believe you can also get plots through MDS (ALSCAL) but I have not used that in some time.  Depending upon the nature of the data, correspondence analysis might provide additional insights.
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Adam B. Troy-3 wrote

Hi all,

I have a table of Euclidean Distances for 100 cases (a 100 x 100 table)
which I computed using PROXIMITIES. I am looking to present this data
visually to identify any clusters of cases that represent groups of similar
cases.

Is there a preferred method of presenting a visual map of this data that
can be implemented with SPSS 20?

Thanks,

Adam Troy