Evaluation of structure and reproducibility of cluster solutions using the bootstrap

Marketing Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 83-101

  Dolnicar, Sara ^a   Leisch, Friedrich ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Cluster analysis; Mixture models

Indexed keywords

EID: 75849146338     PISSN: 09230645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11002-009-9083-4     Document Type: Article

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