That looks like a bug. If you're willing to share the data with me, or some
subset of the data that shows similar problems, then I will try to find the
bug.

On Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 2:11 PM ftr <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I try to calculate à typology of sociocultural milieux with data from the
> ESS survey. After having calculated three continuous variables: ses
> culture populism as input for the typology I now want to cluster them.
>
> N = 2420.
>
>
> QUICK CLUSTER ses culture populism
>  /CRITERIA CLUSTERS(8)
>  /SAVE CLUSTER(milieu).
>
> The result is incomprehensible to me.
>
> The majority of cases disappeared, though there are few missings in the
> original variables.
>
> And the clusters have a NaN entry which says nothing to me. The PSPP Help
> tries to explain what NaN means, but I don't understand it.
>
> And I don't see how to run a cluster analysis that works.
>
>
>                  Final Cluster Centers
> ╭───────────────┬────────────────────────────────────╮
> │               │               Cluster              │
> │               ├───┬────┬─────┬───┬─────┬───┬───┬───┤
> │               │ 1 │  2 │  3  │ 4 │  5  │ 6 │ 7 │ 8 │
> ├───────────────┼───┼────┼─────┼───┼─────┼───┼───┼───┤
> │ses            │NaN│2.87│-2.94│NaN│-1.76│NaN│NaN│NaN│
> │values         │NaN│-.23│ 1.91│NaN│ -.30│NaN│NaN│NaN│
> │populism       │NaN│-.49│ -.25│NaN│  .76│NaN│NaN│NaN│
> ╰───────────────┴───┴────┴─────┴───┴─────┴───┴───┴───╯
>
> Number of Cases in each Cluster
> ╭─────────┬─────╮
> │         │Count│
> ├─────────┼─────┤
> │Cluster 1│    0│
> │        2│  363│
> │        3│  129│
> │        4│    0│
> │        5│  639│
> │        6│    0│
> │        7│    0│
> │        8│    0│
> ├─────────┼─────┤
> │Valid    │ 1131│
> ╰─────────┴─────╯
>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> - ftr
>

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