Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition
14th Edition
ISBN: 9780134685113
Author: Mark L. Berenson, David M. Levine, David F. Stephan, Kathryn Szabat
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 17, Problem 36PS
In recent years, the share of Greek yogurts in the U.S. yogurt market has grown from
a. Perform a cluster analysis on the yogurts.
b. Perform a multidimensional scaling analysis on the yogurts.
c. What conclusion can you reach about the yogurts?
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Basic Business Statistics, Student Value Edition
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