Cluster Observations - Storage
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Stat > Multivariate > Cluster Observations > Storage

Allows you to store cluster membership for each observation, the distance between each observation and each cluster centroid, and the distance matrix.

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Cluster membership column: Enter a single column to store for cluster membership for each observation. This column can then be used as a categorical variable in other Minitab commands.

Distance between observations and cluster centroids (Give a column for each cluster group): Enter storage column(s) for the distance between each observation and each cluster centroid. The number of columns specified must equal the number of cluster in the final partition. The distances stored are always Euclidean distances.

Distance matrix: Enter a storage matrix (M) for the N x N distance matrix, where N is the number of observations. The stored distance matrix can then be used in subsequent commands.