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K-Means Cluster Algorithm Differences - Modeler & SPSS Statistics

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I have used Modeler and SPSS Statistics to run a K-Means cluster analysis on a set of variables. Although the cases were sorted in the same order for the two runs, the same variables were used , and the same number of clusters was requested, the final cluster assignments were different for the Modeler and Statistics results. Are there differences between the K-Means algorithms for Modeler and Statistics?

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