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Hands-On Unsupervised Learning with Python
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Hands-On Unsupervised Learning with Python

by Giuseppe Bonaccorso
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced
386 pages
9h 54m
English
Packt Publishing
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Single and complete linkages

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:

Example of single linkage. C1 and C2 are selected to be merged

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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ISBN: 9781789348279