Sorry about the bug! This one is also now fixed. The output is now:
Initial Cluster Centers
╭─────────────────────┬───────────────╮
│ │ Cluster │
│ ├─────┬────┬────┤
│ │ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │
├─────────────────────┼─────┼────┼────┤
│Z-score of community2│-1.07│1.20│1.29│
│Z-score of ego2 │-1.10│ .43│ .10│
│Z-score of order2 │ .77│1.18│-.11│
╰─────────────────────┴─────┴────┴────╯
Final Cluster Centers
╭─────────────────────┬──────────────╮
│ │ Cluster │
│ ├─────┬───┬────┤
│ │ 1 │ 2 │ 3 │
├─────────────────────┼─────┼───┼────┤
│Z-score of community2│-1.07│.27│ .68│
│Z-score of ego2 │ -.59│.52│-.19│
│Z-score of order2 │ -.17│.72│-.89│
╰─────────────────────┴─────┴───┴────╯
Number of Cases in each Cluster
╭─────────┬───────╮
│ │ Count │
├─────────┼───────┤
│Cluster 1│1344.52│
│ 2│1998.82│
│ 3│1338.19│
├─────────┼───────┤
│Valid │4681.53│
╰─────────┴───────╯
On Fri, Aug 28, 2026 at 1:10 PM ftr <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
