ADPROCLUS
Introduction
Description
The ADPROCLUS software program is a graphical user interface for fitting additive profile clustering models (Depril, Van Mechelen & Mirkin, 2008) to object by variable data matrices. Given such an object by variable data set, the ADPROCLUS program estimates a user-specified range of additive profile clustering models with increasing complexities (i.e., number of clusters) by making use of a multi-start alternating least squares algorithm. In order to help the user in determining the number of clusters that are present in the data, a scree plot and fit information for all complexities considered, are displayed in the output files that are created by the ADPROCLUS program. The ADPROCLUS program is available in MATLAB and as a standalone (".exe") application. More information about how to handle the ADPROCLUS software can be found in Wilderjans, Ceulemans, Van Mechelen & Depril (2010).
Authors
The ADPROCLUS program was created by Tom Wilderjans, Eva Ceulemans, Iven Van Mechelen and Dirk Depril. The first, third and fourth author are members of the Research Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The second author belongs to the Centre for Methodology of Educational Research of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
References
- Wilderjans, T. F., Ceulemans, E., Van Mechelen, I., & Depril, D. (2011). ADPROCLUS: A graphical user interface for fitting additive profile clustering models to object by variable data matrices. Behavior Research Methods, 43, 56-65. doi:10.3758/s13428-010-0033-0
- Depril, D., Van Mechelen, I., & Mirkin, B. G. (2008). Algorithms for additive clustering of rectangular data tables. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 52, 4923-4938. doi:10.1016/j.csda.2008.04.014
Getting ADPROCLUS
What
To download the MATLAB version of the program, unpack the content of the zip-file ADPROCLUS_MATLAB.zip in any folder of your choice. After unpacking, you should start MATLAB and change its current directory to the folder in which you have unpacked the files in question. Typing ADPROCLUS at the command prompt will launch the graphical user interface. To download the standalone application, follow the instructions in the file ReadMe_Standalone.txt.
Conditions
The ADPROCLUS software is offered free of charge to anyone interested in using ADPROCLUS analysis, provided that it is not used for financial profit and that you properly cite the software and the papers mentioned above. Requests to use the software for any commercial purpose must be directed to the authors. The ADPROCLUS program comes without any warranty of any kind. You are not allowed to redistribute a downloaded copy of the software to others. If you want others to use the ADPROCLUS program, refer them to this website. See here for full license information.
How
To get the MATLAB version of the software, you have to fill out your name and e-mail address in a form. After submitting that information, an e-mail containing the address where you can download the software once will be sent to you. Click here to proceed to the download area.
To get the standalone version of the software, you have to fill out your name and e-mail address in a form. After submitting that information, an e-mail containing the address where you can download the software once will be sent to you. Click here to proceed to the download area.