Re: Cluster analysis expert needed

Posted by Art Kendall on Oct 15, 2014; 5:51pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Cluster-analysis-expert-needed-tp5727586p5727606.html

If I read you post correctly, you would not be able to compare/contrast the disadvantaged group from other groups.


Cluster analysis might be used to find out if the there are patterns of applying for benefits.  
How were the set of 8 benefits selected?  Are the applications independent of each other or are the people going to one source where thy could apply for any/all of the 8?  Are there systematic difference in the   eligibility for the benefits, eg., gender linked, child free vs has children of certain ages, means tested etc.?


Without fuller understanding of your project much else would be shooting from the hip.