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Hierarchical

Requirements:

One such meta-wrapper, is the Hierarchical clustering algorithm. This algorithm recursively applies a clustering algorithm over a dataset until some stopping criteria is met. The core algorithm in pseudo-code is:

function hierarchical(dataset)

if ok_to_cluster(dataset)
   cluster_results = cluster(dataset)
   for each subset in cluster_results
      hierarchical(subset)



Lucas Scharenbroich 2003-08-27