Hierarchical clustering schemes

@article{Johnson1967HierarchicalCS,
  title={Hierarchical clustering schemes},
  author={S C Johnson},
  journal={Psychometrika},
  year={1967},
  volume={32},
  pages={241-254}
}
Techniques for partitioning objects into optimally homogeneous groups on the basis of empirical measures of similarity among those objects have received increasing attention in several different fields. This paper develops a useful correspondence between any hierarchical system of such clusters, and a particular type of distance measure. The correspondence gives rise to two methods of clustering that are computationally rapid and invariant under monotonic transformations of the data. In an… Expand
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