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Bayesian Hierarchical Clustering

Bayesian hierarchical clustering is a probabilistic agglomerative algorithm that builds a tree of nested cluster merges using Bayesian model comparison at each step. Rather than minimising a geometric linkage criterion, it evaluates at every candidate merge whether the data from two clusters are better explained by a single combined model or by two separate models, yielding a statistically principled dendrogram.

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Bayesian Hierarchical Clustering
Taxonomic method record · latent-structure / statistics
  • Heller, K. A. & Ghahramani, Z. (2005). Bayesian hierarchical clustering. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2005), pp. 297–304. ACM. · DOI 10.1145/1102351.1102389
  • Murtagh, F. & Legendre, P. (2014). Ward's hierarchical agglomerative clustering method: which algorithms implement Ward's criterion? Journal of Classification, 31(3), 274–295. · DOI 10.1007/s00357-014-9161-z
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