The single linkage clustering method (or the nearest neighbor method) is a method of calculating distance between clusters in hierarchical cluster analysis. The linkage function specifying the distance between two clusters is computed as the minimal object-to-object distance, where objects belong to the first cluster, objects belong to the second cluster. In other words, the distance between two clusters is computed as the distance between the two closest objects in the two clusters.
Week #25 – Nearest Neighbor Clustering
- June 11, 2015
- , 9:02 pm
The single linkage clustering method (or the nearest neighbor method) is a method of calculating distance between clusters in hierarchical cluster analysis .