A study of standardization of variables in cluster analysis
Journal of ClassificationPublished 1 September 1988
Glenn W. Milligan, Martha C. Cooper
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The present simulation study examined the standardization problem and found that those approaches which standardize by division by the range of the variable gave consistently superior recovery of the underlying cluster structure.
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