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Some examples of cluster analysis applications which illustrate the wide diversity of
the subject are listed below. In each study, either a grouping of the sample into a relatively small number of clusters was obtained, or the similarity relationships between the cases were analysed and described.
- Puberty rites of American Indian tribes
- White groups by expressed attitudes towards blacks
- Psychological typology of Chinese and Japanese Americans
- Tribal classifications of Australian aborigines
- Rural poverty patterns in Ontario townships
- Asian nations by peaceful interaction links
- National voting patterns at the UN
- Urban regions by census, industry and facility data
- Storm cycles and beach erosion on Lake Michigan
- Impact craters and volcanoes on earth, moon and Mars
- Geological data transmitted from earth satellites
- Automatic mapping of geophysical data
- Wild plant communities and agricultural crops
- Soil profile distributions and regional trends
- Chemical compounds by their reactive properties
- Brooches from archaeological grave diggings
- Cirrhosis of the liver syndromes
- Evolution stages of infectious disease processes
- Influenza viruses by antigenetic relationships
- Infant mortality from family, ethnic and economic data
- Brain malfunctions in children
- Evolutionary processes in biological taxonomy
- Structure of cell nucleus by genomic components
- Muscle, hair, lens and plasma protein variations
- Amino acid sequences in proteins
- Cardiovascular and respiratory systems in dogs
- Kangaroo rats from systematics and protein variations
- Squirrel monkeys by social signals
- Pedigree dogs by behavioural measurements
- Apes and man from skull measurements
- Survey respondents by personality and attitude data
- Tourist behaviour patterns on camping holidays
- Typological models for predicting educational attainment
- Political cliques by their voting records
- Urban speech varieties from a linguistic survey
- Housing types by their furniture stocks
- Heroic, comic and tender patterns in literary fantasy
- Extracts from Plato and Jane Austen
- Publications in a branch of modern physics
- Consumer goods by content, brand loyalty or similarity
- Product market typology for tailoring sales strategies
- Retail store layouts and sales performances
- Job classes and personnel functions
- Job training requirements and course design
- Forecasting future manpower requirements by job class
- Corporate decision strategies using social preferences
- Control, communication and distribution of organizations
- Industry processes, products and materials
- Design of assembly line control functions
- Automated mass health screening of blood samples
- Character recognition logic in OCR readers
- Data base relationships in management information systems

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