Agglomerative clustering Machine Learning
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Definition: A hierarchical clustering method in which each Example in context: starts as its own cluster, and the algorithm iteratively merges the closest clusters to form a hierarchy (cluster tree) [Bakanach 2023/2024].
Example in context: “The other procedure consists of applying the clustering algorithms called Agglomerative Clustering and K-Modes on the categorical variables transformed using the one-hot encoding technique implemented in the Python sklearn library.” [Díez-Sanmartín et al. 2022]
Related terms: hierarchical clustering; bottom-up clustering