AN EMPIRICAL COMPARISON OF TYPOLOGICAL ANALYSIS METHODS.

Abstract

The purpose of this project was to compare several methods of typological analysis by using each method with a number of data sets. Typological analysis (also called cluster analysis) is concerned with aggregates of objects, each measured with respect to a number of attributes. The aim of these methods is to discover a meaningful ordering or classification scheme for the objects using no information other than the attribute measures and relations among the objects. Object similarity is one such relationship; this is typically quantified as either a Euclidian distance measure or as an index of angular separation, such as the product moment correlation coefficient. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 15, 1969
Accession Number
AD0692484

Entities

People

  • Charles E. Rice
  • Maurice Lorr

Organizations

  • George Washington University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Behavior And Behavior Mechanisms
  • Behavioral Disciplines And Activities
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Classification
  • Coefficients
  • Cooperation
  • Data Sets
  • Digital Data
  • Digital Information

Readers

  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Theoretical Analysis.