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Keat, Donald B., II; Hackman, Roy B. – Measurement and Evaluation in Guidance, 1972
Individuals were grouped into person clusters on the basis of the similarity of their inventory profiles. In any particular profile cluster, homogeneous groups (by curriculum areas) of individuals tend to group into attraction patterns (presence in profile cluster) and avoidance patterns (absence from profile cluster). (Author)
Descriptors: Classification, Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, College Students
Peer reviewedShepherd, Michael A.; Phillips, W. J. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986
Defines relationship between user profile and user query in terms of relationship between clusters of documents retrieved by each, and explores the expression of cluster similarity and cluster overlap as linear functions of similarity existing between original pairs of profiles and queries, given the desired retrieval threshold. (23 references)…
Descriptors: Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Databases, Equations (Mathematics)
