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leaves ofthe tree arethesingledata points.heheightsofthe branchescorrespondto
the distances between the clusters.here is no “correct” combination of distance and
linkage method. Clustering in general, and especially hierarchical clustering, should
be seen as exploratory data analysis, and different combinations may reveal different
features of the data set.
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Hierarchical clustering of the dentitio data using Manhattan distance and the average
linkage method
