Re: Two-step cluster in SPSS 19

Posted by bay.worsoe on Aug 01, 2012; 12:35pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Two-step-cluster-in-SPSS-19-tp5714503p5714548.html

We should mention that the purpose of our analysis is to identify the combined effect of the variables on the dependent variable. To identify that we combined the cases into clusters, which should be fairly similar and then test those clusters against the dependent variable in an ANOVA in order to find a superior cluster with a certain set of variable values.

But which variables do we remove from the clustering process when we find no difference between the clusters?

The ones with no individual correlation with the dependent variable or the ones that show no difference between the clusters?