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Download full textHubert, Lawrence; Schultz, James – 1975
An empirical assesssment of the space distortion properties of two prototypic hierarchical clustering procedures is given in terms of an occupancy model developed from combinatorics. Using one simple example, the single-link and complete-link clustering strategies now in common use in the behavioral sciences are empirically shown to be space…
Descriptors: Behavioral Sciences, Classification, Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping
