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Sorry, I don't.  It would be part of an Joint ASA conference proceeding
from a few years ago.  You might reach out to David Scott at Rice
University.




                        Art Kendall
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do you have a cite or url for David Scott's suggestion?

Art
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>Luca-
>      In spite of their appeal in the consumer world where many seem to
>believe that large amounts of information is tantamount to insurance of
>some type, the sorry fact is that with massive amounts of data, all too
>frequently what you get is massive redundancy.  David Scott's suggestion
to
>do mode clustering with large databases remains one of the most sensible
>suggestions I've ever heard.
>Regards,
>Tom Ball
>McKinsey & Co
>55 East 52nd Street
>New York, NY  10022
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>                        Luca Meyer
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>Hello,
>
>I am searching for working/published papers on twostep clustering method
>comparison as well as references about this and other methods for
>clustering large datasets. I am already aware of the following material:
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>Chiu, T., Fang, D., Chen, J., Wang, Y., and Jeris, C. (2001). A Robust
>and Scalable Clustering Algorithm for Mixed Type Attributes in Large
>Database Environment. Proceedings of the seventh ACM SIGKDD
>international conference on knowledge discovery and data mining, 263.
>
>Zhang, T., Ramakrishnon, R., and Livny M. (1996). BIRCH: An Efficient
>Data Clustering Method for Very Large Datebases. Proceedings of the ACM
>SIGMOD Conference on Management of Data, p. 103-114, Montreal, Canada.
>
>Gore, P. A. Jr. (2000). Cluster analysis. In H. E. A. Tinsley & S. D.
>Brown (Eds.), Handbook of applied multivariate statistics and
>mathematical modeling (pp. 297-321). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
>
>Thank you in advance,
>
>Mr. Luca Meyer
>Consumer research advisor: http://www.lucameyer.com/en/
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