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Average Group Linkage

Average Group Linkage:

The average group linkage 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 distance between the average values (the mean vectors or centroids ) of the two clusters.

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