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### Hierarchical clustering with categorical variables - what distance/similarity to use in R? [duplicate]

I have only categorical variables in my database. What distance/similarity to use? I´m using the function simil() (library(proxy) in R.
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### Choosing the right linkage method for hierarchical clustering

I am performing hierarchical clustering on data I've gathered and processed from the reddit data dump on Google BigQuery. My process is the following: Get the latest 1000 posts in /r/politics ...
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### Hierarchical clustering with mixed type data - what distance/similarity to use?

In my dataset we have both continuous and naturally discrete variables. I want to know whether we can do hierarchical clustering using both type of variables. And if yes, what distance measure is ...
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### Similarity Coefficients for binary data: Why choose Jaccard over Russell and Rao?

From Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences I understand that given $p$ dichotomous (binary: 1=present; 0=absent) attributes (variables), we can form a contingency table for any two objects i and j of a ...
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### With categorical data, can there be clusters without the variables being related?

When trying to explain cluster analyses, it is common for people to misunderstand the process as being related to whether the variables are correlated. One way to get people past that confusion is a ...
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### Understanding $\chi^{2}$ and Cramér's $V$ results

I have two groups of buyers, A and B, and I want to test whether the difference between the percentage of them who would buy a ...
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### Hierarchical or TwoStep cluster analysis for binary data?

(This question is an edited version of a question I previously posted which one user recommended would benefit from more focus). I have 2000 questionnaires from respondents which ask 33 different ...
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### Was it as valid to perform k-means on a distance matrix as on data matrix (text mining data)?

(This post is a repost of a question I posted yesterday (now deleted), but I've tried to scale back volume of words and simplify what I'm asking) I'm hoping to get some help interpreting a kmeans ...
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### Accuracy vs Jaccard for multiclass problem

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### Properties of Levenshtein, N-Gram, cosine and Jaccard distance coefficients - in sentence matching

Let's say I have two strings: string A: 'I went to the cafeteria and bought a sandwich.' string B: 'I heard the cafeteria is serving roast-beef sandwiches today'. ...
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### Distance metric for all categorical data

I have categorical data in the form of Y/N of 23 attributes and containing 200+ records. I need to compute the distance between the attributes with their class label. Which metric can be used?
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### K-Means Clustering with Dummy Variables

I want to use k-means to cluster my data. I have broken one column into 4 dummy variables and I have normalized all of the data to mean=0 and sd=1. Will k-means work with these dummy variables? I ...
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### How to distance and to MDS-plot objects according their complex shape

Suppose I have four basal forms of signal (blue, purple, red, green). I also have created transition forms between each other. If you carefully look on the picture below, you can see that for example ...