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Linkage


is an option for Agglomerate and DendrogramPlot that specifies the linkage method for agglomerative clustering.
  • defines the intercluster dissimilarity, given the dissimilarities between member elements.
  • Possible settings for the option include:
"Single"smallest intercluster dissimilarity
"Average"average intercluster dissimilarity
"Complete"largest intercluster dissimilarity
"WeightedAverage"weighted average intercluster dissimilarity
"Centroid"distance from cluster centroids
"Median"distance from cluster medians
"Ward"Ward's minimum variance dissimilarity
fa pure function
  • The function f defines a distance from a cluster k to the new cluster formed by fusing clusters i and j.
  • The arguments supplied to f are , , , , , and , where d is the distance between clusters and n is the number of elements in a cluster.
Agglomerative clustering using Ward's linkage:
Needs["HierarchicalClustering`"]
Agglomerative clustering using Ward's linkage:
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