Interpreting clustering output

When you use spatially constrained clustering to delineate areal boundaries, BoundarySeer produces a new data set of cluster assignments. The cluster data set is essentially a categorical data set, where the categories are clusters, with the same spatial locations as the original set. BoundarySeer also creates descriptive statistics about the clusters, and boundaries around them. Any locations with missing values will not be included in the new cluster or boundary dataset.

This new data and boundaries can be viewed in maps and in tables.

If you wish to export the boundaries for use in another program, they will be exported in shapefile format (*.shp, *.shx, and *.dbf) with the mean for each of the variables you used to detect boundaries.


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