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February 23, 2016

Hierarchical Clustering


  • Compute distance in every pair of cluster
  • Merge nearest ones until number of clusters = number of clusters needed
  • Entire process can be represented as dendrogram
  • At the end of the algorithm dendogram is plotted
Measuring Distance between clusters
  • Single (Minimum Distance between two pairs one from each clusters)
  • Complete (Maximum  between two pairs one from each clusters)
  • Average (Average of all possible pairs)

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