February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
386 pages
9h 54m
English
The simplest approaches are called single and complete linkages and they are defined as follows:

The single linkage method selects the couple containing the closest couple of samples (each of them belonging to a different cluster). This process is shown in the following diagram, where C1 and C2 are selected for merging:

The primary drawback of this method is the possibility of having small clusters together with very large ones. As we are going to see ...
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