Clustering hierarchical & non-
- Hierarchical: a series of successive fusions of data until a final number of clusters is obtained; e.g. Minimal Spanning Tree: each component of the population to be a cluster. Next, the two clusters with the minimum distance between them are fused to form a single cluster. Repeated until all components are grouped.
- Non-: e.g. K-mean: K clusters chosen such that the points are mutually farthest apart. Each component in the population assigned to one cluster by minimum distance. The centroid's position is recalculated and repeat until all the components are grouped. The criterion minimized, is the within-clusters sum of the variance.