cluster analysis
noun
: a statistical classification technique for discovering whether the individuals of a population fall into different groups by making quantitative comparisons of multiple characteristics
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To make sense of it, the team plans to run a cluster analysis (a statistical method to group similar results).
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Nina Dietz, Wired News, 27 Sep. 2025
For examples marketers may use path analysis to optimize resources and attribute revenues, cluster analysis to segment markets objectively, and computer vision to evaluate, categorize and personalize creative.
—Stephen Diorio, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
According to Gartner, advanced analytic techniques include data or text mining, complex event processing, pattern matching and visualization, as well as semantic, sentiment, and network and cluster analysis.
—Jerry Levine, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
Researchers took the results and put them through what’s called a cluster analysis to define groups that make up U.S. society.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
The state has provided a mobile testing unit that will remain in Provincetown until at least Sunday, and is assisting Barnstable County with case investigation, cluster analysis, and contact tracing, among other efforts, the department said.
—BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2021
Observations under the two conditions were analysed descriptively using hierarchical cluster analysis for binomial data and indicated that in both situations, about half of the data clustered into three groups.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2018
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Nina Dietz, Wired News, 27 Sep. 2025
For examples marketers may use path analysis to optimize resources and attribute revenues, cluster analysis to segment markets objectively, and computer vision to evaluate, categorize and personalize creative.
—Stephen Diorio, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
According to Gartner, advanced analytic techniques include data or text mining, complex event processing, pattern matching and visualization, as well as semantic, sentiment, and network and cluster analysis.
—Jerry Levine, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
Researchers took the results and put them through what’s called a cluster analysis to define groups that make up U.S. society.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2021
The state has provided a mobile testing unit that will remain in Provincetown until at least Sunday, and is assisting Barnstable County with case investigation, cluster analysis, and contact tracing, among other efforts, the department said.
—BostonGlobe.com, 21 July 2021
Observations under the two conditions were analysed descriptively using hierarchical cluster analysis for binomial data and indicated that in both situations, about half of the data clustered into three groups.
—Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2018
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