Thanks for your answer! You helped me a lot! Is there any documentation of the DMVQ procedure. I couldn't find any. Unfortunately I have to write my master thesis about all this. Kind of hard without formulas and sufficient documentation by SAS 😄 Maybe you can answer me one more question about the CCC. The greater the better... I know. But what if it is just monoton increasing, so the more cluster, the greater it is. Seems kind of nonsense to me or quite unreliable. Are other statistics more  important like the R² or cluster distance?   Thank you! 🙂 ... View more

heey, thanks for your answer, so for my understanding: 1) hierarchical clustering based on maximum number of clusters 2) submitting this solution to FASTCLUS Is this right? How can I see this is the SAS Code? Thanks and kind regards Laura ... View more

So what method is exactly used in this preliminary cluster pass? This is of importance, I guess. ... View more

Thanks for your answer! The problem is..the variable only exists in the output and the procedure runs in the Enterprise Miner, so I have no idea how to change that.... ... View more

Thanks for your answer! I mean something like an integer value. This is part of my output. Well I'm not sure about that 26E4 = 26*10*4?? This is actually what I'm trying to figure out... ... View more