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The Computer Journal 1972 15(3):209-213; doi:10.1093/comjnl/15.3.209
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Evaluation of hierarchical grouping techniques: a preliminary study

K. M. Cunningham * and J. C. Ogilvie *

Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

This is an initial enquiry into the evaluation of hierarchical grouping procedures. The arbitrary criterion of quality proposed was goodness of fit of output distances to input distances. This was measured by two coefficients, Kendall's tau and a stress type of measure. Seven well-known hierarchical grouping techniques were investigated. The input data sets were artificially constructed to represent several different data types, including metric and ultrametric. A strong interaction was found between input data and grouping method.

Received March 1971.

* Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada


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