Cluster Analysis and Q-Analysis

Abstract In this article the correspondence between a characteristic algorithm of Q-analysis and the single link method of cluster analysis is noted. Implications of the correspondence are discussed and more important differences between the approaches of Q-analysis and of cluster analysis are brought out.

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