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Solution Using Clustering Methods

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The main aim of this analysis is to find out typical morphologies from the multivariate and longitudinal data set on growing children and to describe the morphological evolution of the found groups of girls. The finding out of typical morphologies is, in our opinion, strictly linked to the search of structures in the individuals and in the variables.

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Mineo, A. (1987). Solution Using Clustering Methods. In: Janssen, J., Marcotorchino, F., Proth, J.M. (eds) Data Analysis. Competitive Methods in Operations Research and Data Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6790-5_6

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