Using cluster analysis to examine husband-wife decision making.

The Psychological Record;  September 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Introduction to Cluster Analysis In many areas of inquiry, researchers...how to develop taxonomies). Cluster analysis (first used by Tryon, 1939...and other disciplines all use cluster analysis in part contributing to its...

Cluster Analysis for Verification of Precipitation Fields

Weather and Forecasting;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......statistical method referred to as cluster analysis is employed to identify features in...statistical method generally referred to as cluster analysis. In image processing circles, cluster analysis is referred to as image segmentation...

clusters

A Dictionary of Statistics;      7 words ...clusters See cluster analysis ; cluster sampling .

Cluster Analysis for Object-Oriented Verification of Fields: A Variation

Monthly Weather Review;  March 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......statistical method referred to as cluster analysis was employed to identify clusters...objects. The basic idea is to perform cluster analysis on the combined set of observations...will be referred to as combinative cluster analysis (CCA). CCA naturally lends itself...

A Synoptic Climatology of the Central United States and Associations with...

Journal of Climate;  July 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ......States based on an automated two-step cluster analysis. It employs daily NCEP-NCAR reanalysis...geopotential heights, and winds aloft. The cluster analysis creates 10 synoptic types exhibiting...principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis. PCA has been widely used by ...

Blinded by science: the managerial consequences of inadequately validated...

International Journal of Market Research;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Cluster analysis has been successfully used in market...managers could distinguish between cluster analysis outputs derived from real and random...worst completely misleading. As cluster analysis is incorporated into the analytics...

Something approaching science? Cluster analysis procedures in the CRM...

International Journal of Market Research;  June 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......trees, neural networks and cluster analysis is increasing. It is suggested that the subjective nature of cluster analysis may be overlooked when the...that inadequately tested cluster analysis solutions may be contributing...

Choice of distance matrices in cluster analysis: Defining regions

Journal of Climate;  June 15, 2001 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Cluster analysis is a technique frequently used...grid points to define regions. Cluster analysis is based on some form of distance...using Euclidean distances for cluster analysis, however, the additional assumption...

Cluster Analysis of 4-Day Back Trajectories Arriving in the Barcelona...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......of large meteorological datasets, cluster analysis appeared at the end of the 1980s as...the first to perform studies using cluster analysis with atmospheric trajectories. They...2000). In principle, the results of cluster analysis are similar to those of flow climatology...

A new approach for exploring multivariate data: self-organising maps.(data...

International Journal of Market Research;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......clusters data in a manner similar to cluster analysis, but has the additional benefit of...multivariate data using factor analysis, cluster analysis, correspondence analysis, or by 'jumping...comparison of self-organising maps with cluster analysis and correspondence analysis is ...

Families of Nations and Public Policy.

West European Politics;  January 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Employing cluster analysis, this article reconsiders a concept...robust and stable over time. Cluster analysis also reveals different paths...book and describes the logic of cluster analysis. Next, the main results obtained...

Cluster-analysis classification of wintertime wind patterns in the Grand...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......region were derived from a two-stage cluster analysis wind-field classification scheme...Automated approaches that make use of cluster analysis (e.g., Mo and Ghil 1988; Bogardi et...Walker (1992) proposed a two-stage cluster analysis scheme to classify weather types...

Cluster Analysis of the Seasonal Forecast Skill of the NCEP SFM over the...

Journal of Climate;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Cluster analysis was used to study seasonal forecast...they have been identified by cluster analysis applied to the leading modes...1993; Straus and Molteni 2004). Cluster analysis has been used at operational...

Is Blocking a Circulation Regime?

Monthly Weather Review;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......circulation regimes are obtained by cluster analysis using the k-means method and tested...important planetary wave patterns is cluster analysis, in which preferred states ("circulation...regime, which has been identified using cluster analysis by a number of papers (e.g., Cheng...

Typifying developmental trajectories - a decision making perspective

Psychology Science;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......method involves employing methods of cluster analysis. When selecting a method of cluster analysis, the following ten cluster characteristics...smoking in male adolescents. Key words: cluster analysis, decision making, configured frequency...