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Single linkage

Term · Chemistry · MLC-T-CHM-010890

A hierarchical clustering method where the distance between two clusters is defined as the minimum distance between any single data point in one cluster and any single data point in the other cluster. This approach tends to form long, straggly clusters, often referred to as chaining. It is one of the simplest methods for agglomerative hierarchical clustering.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CHM-010890
FieldChemistry
SubjectAnalytical Chemistry
ReferencesPAC, 2016, 88, 407. 'Vocabulary of concepts and terms in chemometrics (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 432 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0605)
See alsoHierarchical clustering
Record as JSON 
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  "term": "Single linkage",
  "field": "Chemistry",
  "definition": "A hierarchical clustering method where the distance between two clusters is defined as the minimum distance between any single data point in one cluster and any single data point in the other cluster. This approach tends to form long, straggly clusters, often referred to as chaining. It is one of the simplest methods for agglomerative hierarchical clustering.",
  "subject": "Analytical Chemistry",
  "see_also": [
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  ],
  "references": [
    "PAC, 2016, 88, 407. 'Vocabulary of concepts and terms in chemometrics (IUPAC Recommendations 2016)' on page 432 (https://doi.org/10.1515/pac-2015-0605)"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/chemistry/single-linkage/"
}

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