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Cluster analysis is the task of partitioning data into subsets of objects according to their mutual "similarity," without using preexisting knowledge such as class labels. [Clustered-standard-errors and/or cluster-samples should be tagged as such; do NOT use the "clustering" tag for them.]

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How to deal with the effect of the order of observations in a non hierarchical cluster analy...

When a non-hierarchical cluster analysis is carried out, the order of observations in the data file determine the clustering results, especially if the data set is small (i.e, 5000 observations). …
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Clustering (k-means, or otherwise) with a minimum cluster size constraint

Maybe you could try to run a hierarchical clustering and then decide which clusters retain based on your dendrogram. … If your data set is huge, you could also combine both clustering methods: an initial non-hierarchical clustering and then a hierarchical clustering using the groups from the non-hierarchical analysis. …
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Where to cut a dendrogram?

There are also some statistics that could hepl on this task: Hubert' gamma, pseudo-t², pseudo-F or cubic clustering criteria (CCC) among others. …
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