How to perform hierarchical clustering and plot dendrogram?

How to perform hierarchical clustering and plot dendrogram?

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Spotfire Statistica 13.0 and higher

Description

This article illustrates how to perform hierarchical clustering analysis and plot dendrogram in Statistica
 

Issue/Introduction

How to perform hierarchical clustering and plot dendrogram?

Environment

Windows

Resolution

1. Go to "Statistica" | "Mult/Exploratory" | "Cluster"

2. In the Clustering dialog, select "Joining (Tree Clustering)". Click OK.

3. In the Joining Tree Clustering analysis dialog, under "Quick" tab, select the variables and specify "Input file" as "Raw data". 

4. Under "Advanced" tab, specify "Cases(Rows)" to clustering, and choose the linkage rule and distance measure for clustering. Click OK.

5. In the result dialog, Click on Horizontal or Vertical Hierarchical tree plot to get the dendrogram.

Example horizontal hierarchical tree dendrogram: