Hi,

I look for guidance how to understand the following result of a Quick Cluster analysis. Before the cluster analysis I factor analysed Schwartz's 21 Human Values item, dropped cases with a response set and got a KMO of .89 for the factor analysis. The factors are close to the study hypotheses.

Now I want to use the three factors community, ego, and order to create a typology and start with k=3 clusters. For this step I took a 10% sample of the initial more than 50,000 cases to reduce computation time. The three input factors are standardised before the clustering. All cases with missing data are excluded (listwise deletion).

The result is incomprehensible to me. Where does the NaN result for one cluster may come from ? And the sizes of the 3 clusters are so different that there must be an error somewhere.

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance

-ftr

Descriptive Statistics
        N       Mean    Std Dev         Minimum         Maximum
community2      4738,97         ,01     ,89     -3,73   2,38
ego2    4738,97         ,00     ,92     -3,26   2,53
order2  4738,97         -,03    ,85     -3,28   2,24
Valid N (listwise)      5155,35         
        
        
        
Missing N (listwise)    416,38  
        
        
        

QUICK CLUSTER zcommunity2 zego2 zorder2
      /CRITERIA=CLUSTERS(3) NOINITIAL
      /MISSING=EXCLUDE
      /PRINT=INITIAL CLUSTER
      /SAVE=CLUSTER(clus3t) DISTANCE(distclus3t).

Initial Cluster Centers
        Cluster

        1       2       3
Z-score of community2   ,04     1,06    ,70
Z-score of ego2         ,84     1,10    -,72
Z-score of order2       -,84    1,10    -,40

Final Cluster Centers
        Cluster

        1       2       3
Z-score of community2   -,05    1,37    NaN
Z-score of ego2         -,10    2,75    NaN
Z-score of order2       -,09    2,50    NaN

Number of Cases in each Cluster
        
        Count
Cluster         1       2132
2       81
3       0
Valid   2213


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