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Ward's method is one of "linkage rules" in hierarchical agglomerative cluster analysis. In Ward's method, those two clusters are chosen to merge at each step that would yield the lowest increase in error sum of squares.
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Intuitive explanation of Ward's method
I got this explanation of the Ward's method of hierarchical clustering from Malhotra et. al (2017), and I don't really get what it means:
Ward’s procedure is a variance method which attempts to gener …
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