Agglomerative hierarchical clustering is a popular class of methods for understanding the structure of a dataset. The nature of the clustering depends on the choice of linkage—that is, on how one ...

Various methods of summarizing phenetic relationships are briefly reviewed (including a comparison of principal components analysis and non-metric scaling). Sequential agglomerative hierarchical ...

Many simulation studies comparing various methods of cluster analysis have been performed. In these studies, artificial data sets containing known clusters are produced using pseudo-random-number ...

In other cases the approximation is generally conservative. For details about the interpretation of the CCC, consult Sarle (1983). Milligan and Cooper (1985) and Cooper and Milligan (1988) compared ...