Single link The following figure shows the result of applying single link technique to our example data The left figure shows the nested clusters as a sequence of nested ellipses The numbers associated with the ellipses indicate the order of the e clustering. The right figure shows the same information in the form of a dendrogram The height at which two clusters are merged in the dendrogram reflects the distance of the two clusters 8/20/2016 PATTERN RECOGNITIONSingle link The following figure shows the result of applying single link technique to our example data. The left figure shows the nested clusters as a sequence of nested ellipses. The numbers associated with the ellipses indicate the order of the clustering. The right figure shows the same information in the form of a dendrogram. The height at which two clusters are merged in the dendrogram reflects the distance of the two clusters. 8/20/2016 PATTERN RECOGNITION 50