Very often when such wierd things happen, the cause has been due to one or more
variables having a missing value or a weight set which the user didn't realise.

J'

On Wed, Jul 22, 2026 at 11:08:55PM +0200, ftr wrote:
> I  am sorry, for my late answer, but I was occupied, and then I was not able
> to reproduce the error.
> 
> In the meantime, the error did not appear again.
> 
> Thanks for your proposition to help.
> 
> - ftr
> 
> On 14/06/2026 17:24, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > 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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