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Note on Ultrametric Hierarchical Clustering Algorithms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Vladimir Batagelj
Vladimir Batagelj*
Affiliation:
University Edvard Kardelj Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
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Requests for reprints should he sent to Vladimir Batagelj, University Edvard Kardelj, Department of Mathematics, Jadranska 19, 61 000 Ljubljana, Yugoslavia.
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Abstract

Milligan presented the conditions that are required for a hierarchical clustering strategy to be monotonic, based on a formula by Lance and Williams. In the present paper, the statement of the conditions is improved and shown to provide necessary and sufficient conditions.

Keywords

monotonic hierarchical clustering strategies

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Notes And Comments
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Psychometrika , Volume 46 , Issue 3 , September 1981 , pp. 351 - 352
Copyright
Copyright © 1981 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

This work was supported in part by the Boris Kidrič Fund, Yugoslavia.

References

Lance, G. N. & Williams, W. T. A general theory of classificatory sorting strategies, 1. Hierarchical systems. The Computer Journal, 1967, 9, 373–380.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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