Interpreting negative CCC values in a Cluster Analysis

penguinflies90 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 21:09:49 GMT

I am doing k-means clustering using fastclus and am getting negative and decreasing CCC values as I increase the number of clusters. The following link says the distribution might be unimodal and long tailed.

http://support.sas.com/kb/22/540.html

What does this mean? Is this talking about the variables I am clustering on or the distribution of the CCC value itself? I am going to try non-parametric clustering to see if that gives me better results. Can anybody suggest anything else apart from that?

Thanks

Re: Interpreting negative CCC values in a Cluster Analysis

MikeStockstill — Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:41:52 GMT

Hello Penguinflies90-

According to the link, "distribution" refers to the CCC. A number-of-clusters solution is not clearly defined by the CCC in this case.

Here is a note that provides some analysis strategies to consider.

46314: The Cluster node creates only one big cluster, or does not find clusters in the data

http://support.sas.com/kb/46/314.html

Have a great day.

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