Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis (2025) - Class #19, cluster analysis

This is a video from Applied Multivariate Statistical Analysis (STAT 494/873) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in fall 2025. See http://www.chrisbilder.com/multivariate (schedule and section materials web pages) for the course notes. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) is recommending the elimination of my UNL Department of Statistics along with five other departments and other severe cuts. These recommendations include laying off 50+ tenured faculty--no other research university does this. There is a small chance that the Department of Statistics can be saved. Please let the university administrators know why statistics is essential to a research university, especially one that wants to get back into the Association of American Universities (AAU). Tell these administrators about your experiences with statistics. The administrators include: President Jeff Gold ([email protected]; leader of the University of Nebraska system) Chancellor Rodney Bennett ([email protected]; leader of UNL) Vice Chancellor Tiffany Heng-Moss ([email protected]; leader of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources which includes the department) Academic Planning Committee, coordinator is Karen Griffin ([email protected]; the committee that recommended elimination of the Department of Statistics) UNL specific information about the proposed budget cuts is at https://budgetprocess.unl.edu/proposed-budget-reductions. A Nebraska Public Media news story is at https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/breaking-unl-proposing-to-eliminate-six-academic-programs. And, my LinkedIn post explaining more about the situation is at https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7372758339300098048. Thank you for your support.