Chapter 15
Behavioural profiles, distance metrics and cluster analysis
Article outline
- 15.1What are Behavioural Profiles?
- 15.2Behavioural Profiles of English analytic causatives
- 15.2.1Data and theoretical background
- 15.2.2Computation of numeric BP vectors from the categorical data
- 15.2.3Distance matrix
- 15.2.4Hierarchical cluster analysis
- 15.2.4.1Identifying the clusters
- 15.2.4.2Interpretation of the cluster solution: Snake plots and effect size measures
- 15.2.4.3Validation of a cluster solution
- 15.2.5Partitioning methods
- 15.2.5.1General introduction
- 15.2.5.2Partitioning around centroids (k-means)
- 15.2.5.3Partitioning around medoids
- 15.3Summary