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Journal of Consumer Research 1984

On the Use of Hierarchical Clustering for the Analysis of Nonsymmetric Proximities

Wayne S. DeSarbo1; Geert De Soete

1 Pennsylvania State University

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Abstract

Rao and Sabavala (1981) recently proposed a hierarchical clustering methodology applied to normalized brand switching matrices to assess competitive market structure. We introduce a recently developed clustering method that appears to be more suited to the analysis of such nonsymmetric data, and describe an application and comparison of the various approaches.

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10.1086/208996
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