Table 4 Values of the absolute difference between the estimated and the known number of clusters across the correlation matrices for 96 variables and 24 objects

1

1.008

1.037

1.088

1.123

1.920

2.020

2.255

2.087

2.022

2.905

0.477

0.727

0.150

2

1.004

1.032

1.073

1.179

1.959

2.081

2.287

2.258

2.363

3.048

0.114

0.119

0.153

3

1.008

1.031

1.065

1.135

1.858

2.041

2.193

2.099

2.763

2.902

0.135

0.130

0.165

4

0.811

0.968

0.921

0.904

0.635

0.559

0.551

1.023

1.263

0.941

0.438

0.408

1.887

5

0.965

0.978

0.918

0.888

0.598

0.524

0.516

1.058

1.940

0.846

0.192

0.150

1.882

6

0.822

0.960

0.917

0.897

0.613

0.522

0.516

1.082

1.558

1.016

0.423

0.438

1.897

7

0.064

0.034

0.082

0.112

0.906

1.068

1.239

1.163

1.307

1.954

0.618

0.776

0.890

8

0.068

0.021

0.075

0.108

0.946

1.078

1.255

1.199

1.177

1.857

0.760

0.802

0.914

9

1.05

1.029

1.082

1.126

1.882

2.045

2.215

2.153

1.975

2.933

0.422

0.401

0.163

10

1.011

1.025

1.072

1.130

1.981

2.080

2.262

2.129

2.011

2.932

0.502

0.611

0.179

11

0.571

0.024

0.069

0.123

0.900

1.084

1.239

1.114

0.021

1.906

0.109

0.104

0.918

12

0.104

0.038

0.081

0.101

0.919

1.088

1.225

1.148

0.450

1.901

0.115

0.120

0.913

13

1.664

1.956

1.902

1.897

1.147

0.983

0.852

1.392

1.971

0.767

0.582

0.576

2.930

14

1.938

1.969

1.925

1.893

1.184

0.997

0.857

1.463

2.201

0.793

0.105

0.092

2.884

15

0.810

0.960

0.902

0.892

0.614

0.531

0.512

1.020

1.025

0.914

1.354

1.328

1.910

16

0.958

0.964

0.896

0.906

0.635

0.549

0.537

1.017

1.586

0.912

0.277

0.278

1.897

Average

0.866

0.877

0.879

0.901

1.169

1.203

1.282

1.463

1.602

1.783

0.414

0.441

1.233