topic Gower's Distance for Clustering - Standardization necessary? in SAS Data Science https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/Gower-s-Distance-for-Clustering-Standardization-necessary/m-p/518347#M7542 <P>I'm making a cluster analysis in SAS Enterprise Miner. Due to the various scales of my variables (interval, binary, nominal) I want to use Gower's Distance for the distance matrice. After that I want to import that matrice to a cluster node.</P><P>In the cluster node you can select standardization for the cluster analysis (range standardization) . Do I need this, if I have already calculated Gower's Distance, which is kind of standardization?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks and kind regards</P> Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:32:32 GMT SAS_ASS 2018-12-04T10:32:32Z Gower's Distance for Clustering - Standardization necessary? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/Gower-s-Distance-for-Clustering-Standardization-necessary/m-p/518347#M7542 <P>I'm making a cluster analysis in SAS Enterprise Miner. Due to the various scales of my variables (interval, binary, nominal) I want to use Gower's Distance for the distance matrice. After that I want to import that matrice to a cluster node.</P><P>In the cluster node you can select standardization for the cluster analysis (range standardization) . Do I need this, if I have already calculated Gower's Distance, which is kind of standardization?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks and kind regards</P> Tue, 04 Dec 2018 10:32:32 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/Gower-s-Distance-for-Clustering-Standardization-necessary/m-p/518347#M7542 SAS_ASS 2018-12-04T10:32:32Z Re: Gower's Distance for Clustering - Standardization necessary? https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/Gower-s-Distance-for-Clustering-Standardization-necessary/m-p/519096#M7547 <P>Thank you for your interest.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>The Cluster node in Enterprise Miner does not accept distance data as input.&nbsp; If you want to perform a cluster analysis on your Gower's distance matrix, then use PROC CLUSTER or PROC MODECLUS in SAS/STAT software.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Have a great day!</P> Thu, 06 Dec 2018 12:21:41 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Data-Science/Gower-s-Distance-for-Clustering-Standardization-necessary/m-p/519096#M7547 MikeStockstill 2018-12-06T12:21:41Z