Difference between revisions of "Hierarchical Cluster Analysis (HCA)"

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# Compute distance between clusters (items)
 
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The HCPC (Hierarchical Clustering on Principal Components) approach allows us to combine the three standard methods used in multivariate data analyses (Husson, Josse, and J. 2010):
  
 
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  1. Identify clusters (items) with closest distance
  2. Join them to new clusters
  3. Compute distance between clusters (items)
  4. Return to step 1

The HCPC (Hierarchical Clustering on Principal Components) approach allows us to combine the three standard methods used in multivariate data analyses (Husson, Josse, and J. 2010):

011-hcpc-hierarchical-clustering-on-principal-components-3d-map-1.png