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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Res Methods. 2017 Feb;49(1):282–293. doi: 10.3758/s13428-015-0697-6

Table 3.

All plo results for Simulation I

RV ICEM KM
Overall .74 .59 .23
Clusters
 2 .62 .32 .04
 4 .73 .62 .22
 6 .86 .83 .42
Variables
 2 .73 .63 .11
 4 .78 .63 .25
 6 .70 .51 .32
SS
 100 .64 .38 .21
 500 .77 .69 .26
 800 .80 .70 .21
Density
 Equal-sized .71 .57 .21
 1 Small .73 .58 .19
 1 Large .78 .62 .28
Overlap
 Close .91 .75 .32
 Moderate .69 .55 .19
 Well .61 .47 .17

Each cell is the average proportion of solutions with a unique BIC. Bold values indicate the lowest plo for the factor condition. RV, random values; ICEM, iteratively constrained EM; KM, k-means clustering; AHC, agglomerative hierarchical clustering; SS, sum score.