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2007 Jul 06
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Clustering nested data
...for the tree species 'red maple', even though we measured 100 trees. I have used classification trees to examine this data, which I like because of it's predictive abilities for later 'unknown' datasets. However, my concern is that the mean species attributes (columns Diameter:Avgnumtrees in attached table) are associated with the tree species (nested?)(column Treespecies in attached table) and are not independent attributes, but are directly associated with the species listed in that row. My question is, what is the best way to conduct a clustering (I have also tried hclust, cclus...