Hierarchical clustering
METHOD OF CLUSTER ANALYSIS WHICH SEEKS TO BUILD A HIERARCHY OF CLUSTERS
Hierarchical Clustering; Agglomerative hierarchical clustering; Hierarchical Cluster Analysis; Hierarchical cluster analysis; SLINK; Agglomerative clustering; Divisive clustering; Hierarchical agglomerative clustering
In data mining and statistics, hierarchical clustering (also called hierarchical cluster analysis or HCA) is a method of cluster analysis that seeks to build a hierarchy of clusters. Strategies for hierarchical clustering generally fall into two categories: