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- Title
ADPROCLUS: a graphical user interface for fitting additive profile clustering models to object by variable data matrices.
- Authors
Wilderjans, Tom F.; Ceulemans, Eva; Van Mechelen, Iven; Depril, Dirk
- Abstract
In many areas of psychology, one is interested in disclosing the underlying structural mechanisms that generated an object by variable data set. Often, based on theoretical or empirical arguments, it may be expected that these underlying mechanisms imply that the objects are grouped into clusters that are allowed to overlap (i.e., an object may belong to more than one cluster). In such cases, analyzing the data with Mirkin's additive profile clusteringmodelmay be appropriate. In this model: (1) each object may belong to no, one or several clusters, (2) there is a specific variable profile associated with each cluster, and (3) the scores of the objects on the variables can be reconstructed by adding the cluster-specific variable profiles of the clusters the object in question belongs to. Until now, however, no software program has been publicly available to perform an additive profile clustering analysis. For this purpose, in this article, the ADPROCLUS program, steered by a graphical user interface, is presented. We further illustrate its use by means of the analysis of a patient by symptom data matrix.
- Subjects
GRAPHICAL user interfaces; COMPUTER software; CLUSTER analysis (Statistics); PSYCHOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL models
- Publication
Behavior Research Methods, 2011, Vol 43, Issue 1, p56
- ISSN
1554-351X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13428-010-0033-0