February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
386 pages
9h 54m
English
Another common method is called average linkage (or Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean (UPGMA)). It is defined as follows:

The idea is quite similar to complete linkage, but, in this case, the average of each cluster is taken into account and the goal is to minimize the average inter-cluster distance, considering all possible pairs (Ca, Cb). The following diagram shows an example of average linkage:

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