Dear Art, For anyone wanting this article or any other in JoC, having all back issues of JoC accessible online is a great resource, and a great benefit of CSNA membership. Fionn On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:12:28 -0500, Art Kendall <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I didn't see that article because my 2001 Journal of Classification >issues were sent to be sanitized after we had the anthrax scare at work >and were never returned. > >This is obviously an approach to try. > >Art > >J. Douglas Carroll wrote: >> K-modes clustering was originally developed by Anil Chaturvedi, Paul >> Green and me in 1994, but, for various reasons, not published until >> 2001. K-modes indeed is the optimal procedure to use for the problem >> of clustering categorical data you describe. The reference for our >> paper is: >> >> Chaturvedi, A.D., Green, P.E. & Carroll, J.D. (2001). K-modes >> clustering. /Journal of Classification,/ 18, 35-56. >> >> Doug Carroll >> >> At 09:39 AM 2/4/2008, Arnaud Trollé wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I'd like to cluster categorical data (3 categories) by means of a >>> partitioning >>> method; I'm quite a beginner in that field and I would need to be >>> enlightened. >>> From a bibliographic review I carried out about that topic, it >>> appeared to me >>> that a method is often used :the k-modes method. From her/his >>> experience, >>> could anyone confirm or deny that it is the case ? If denied, which >>> method >>> could be more "powerful" ? >>> >>> Thanks in advance. >>> >>> Best Regards. >>> Arnaud. >>> PhD Student in Acoustics. >>> Lyon, France. >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------- >>> CLASS-L list. >>> Instructions: >>> http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l >> >> >> >> ###################################################################### >> # J. Douglas Carroll, Board of Governors Professor of Management and # >> #Psychology, Rutgers University, Graduate School of Management, # >> #Marketing Dept., MEC125, 111 Washington Street, Newark, New Jersey # >> #07102-3027. Tel.: (973) 353-5814, Fax: (973) 353-5376. >> # >> # Home: 14 Forest Drive, Warren, New Jersey 07059-5802. >> # >> # Home Phone: (908) 753-6441 or 753-1620, Home Fax: (908) 757-1086. >> # >> # E-mail: [log in to unmask] # >> >> ######################################################################---------------------------------------------- >> CLASS-L list. Instructions: >> http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l >> > >---------------------------------------------- >CLASS-L list. >Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l > ---------------------------------------------- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l