Cluster analysis is widely used in marketing research, especially in market segmentation studies. Though it is well known that cluster analysis approaches can be unreliable, the author's research suggests that unreliability may be a greater problem than has previously been suggested, especially with approaches involving large numbers of decisions about cluster membership.
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