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    This document discusses how hierarchical clustering requires a measure of dissimilarity between clusters to determine which clusters should be combined or split. Most hierarchical clustering methods use a metric like distance to measure dissimilarity between individual observations, and then apply a linkage criterion to determine the dissimilarity between entire clusters based on the pairwise distances between observations within the clusters.

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    This document discusses how hierarchical clustering requires a measure of dissimilarity between clusters to determine which clusters should be combined or split. Most hierarchical clustering methods use a metric like distance to measure dissimilarity between individual observations, and then apply a linkage criterion to determine the dissimilarity between entire clusters based on the pairwise distances between observations within the clusters.

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    In order to decide which clusters should be combined (for agglomerative), or where a cluster should be split (for divisive), a measure of dissimilarity between sets of observations is required. In most methods of hierarchical clustering, this is achieved by use of an appropriate metric (a measure of distance between pairs of observations), and a linkage criterion which specifies the dissimilarity of sets as a function of the pairwise distances of observations in the sets.

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