https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/how-to-merge-clusters-in-E-Miner/m-p/410914#M6258 <BLOCKQUOTE> <P><SPAN>can you please advise on how to merge clusters in E-Miner?</SPAN></P> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>There is not a way to do this directly in the Cluster node since reducing a solution from k+1 levels to a solution that has k levels (for instance) would not necessarily be the same as joining two of the clusters together.&nbsp; &nbsp;What you seem to be describing is a simple reassignment, however,&nbsp;which&nbsp;you can accomplish fairly easily as follows:</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp;1 - change the Cluster Variable Role property in the Cluster node from Segment to Input and rerun the analysis</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp;2 - review the Cluster node results and identify which clusters you wish to combine</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp;3 - connect a Replacement node following the Cluster node and run the Replacement node (to update the metadata)</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp;4 - click on the ... to the right of Replacement Editor property in the Replacement node and reassign the cluster values produced by the Cluster node (the _SEGMENT_ variable) as desired&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp;5 - run the flow from the Replacement node to obtain the desired data form</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Hope this helps!</P> <P>Doug</P> Mon, 06 Nov 2017 16:32:01 GMT DougWielenga 2017-11-06T16:32:01Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/how-to-merge-clusters-in-E-Miner/m-p/409004#M6226 <P>can you please advise on how to merge clusters in E-Miner? one of the cluster in my model is skewed and I want to merge it with the nearest cluster.</P> Tue, 31 Oct 2017 07:20:53 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/how-to-merge-clusters-in-E-Miner/m-p/409004#M6226 mvyas 2017-10-31T07:20:53Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/how-to-merge-clusters-in-E-Miner/m-p/410914#M6258 <BLOCKQUOTE> <P><SPAN>can you please advise on how to merge clusters in E-Miner?</SPAN></P> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>There is not a way to do this directly in the Cluster node since reducing a solution from k+1 levels to a solution that has k levels (for instance) would not necessarily be the same as joining two of the clusters together.&nbsp; &nbsp;What you seem to be describing is a simple reassignment, however,&nbsp;which&nbsp;you can accomplish fairly easily as follows:</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp;1 - change the Cluster Variable Role property in the Cluster node from Segment to Input and rerun the analysis</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp;2 - review the Cluster node results and identify which clusters you wish to combine</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp;3 - connect a Replacement node following the Cluster node and run the Replacement node (to update the metadata)</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp;4 - click on the ... to the right of Replacement Editor property in the Replacement node and reassign the cluster values produced by the Cluster node (the _SEGMENT_ variable) as desired&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp; &nbsp;5 - run the flow from the Replacement node to obtain the desired data form</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Hope this helps!</P> <P>Doug</P> Mon, 06 Nov 2017 16:32:01 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/how-to-merge-clusters-in-E-Miner/m-p/410914#M6258 DougWielenga 2017-11-06T16:32:01Z