Re: Presenting Euclidean Distances

Posted by Adam Troy on Jul 20, 2012; 2:41pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Presenting-Euclidean-Distances-tp5714256p5714345.html

Thanks everyone. On further investigation it looks like multidimensional scaling works quite nicely for this purpose.

Adam

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Art Kendall <[hidden email]> wrote:

The answer to that question depends to some degree on the nature of your data and who your audience(s) are.

What constitutes a case? I.e., what are the distances between?

What are the dimensions (variables usually) that went into the distances?  What were they? How were they chosen? How many are they?

Why did you choose Euclidean distance?  Is there a reason to assume that the dimensions are pretty much uncorrelated?

Do you expect to find a tree structure? Or are you looking to construct a single nominal level variable whose levels are the clusters?

Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants

On 7/16/2012 11:08 AM, Adam Troy 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