Hierarchical Clustering Tutorial

By Kardi Teknomo, PhD.

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In this hierarchical clustering tutorial, you will learn step by step on how to compute manually hierarchical clustering using agglomerative technique and validate the clustering using Cophenetic Correlation Coefficient. The topics of the tutorial are as follow:

What is Clustering?

Dendogram

Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm

From Object features to Distance matrix

Linkage between Objects

Single Linkage Hierarchical Clustering

Complete Linkage Hierarchical Clustering

Average Group Hierarchical Clustering

Centroid Hierarchical Clustering

Ward's Linkage Hierarchical Clustering

SAHN Clustering method

Numerical Example

Cophenetic Correlation Coefficient

Resources on Hierarchical Clustering

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Preferable reference for this tutorial is

Teknomo, Kardi. (2009) Hierarchical Clustering Tutorial.
http://people.revoledu.com/kardi/tutorial/clustering/