Hierarchical clustering The basic agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm is summarized as follows Compute the proximity matr Repeat Merge the closest two clusters Update the proximity matrix to reflect the proximity between the new cluster and the original clusters Until only one cluster remains 8/20/2016 PATTERN RECOGNITIONHierarchical clustering The basic agglomerative hierarchical clustering algorithm is summarized as follows ◦ Compute the proximity matrix. ◦ Repeat ◦ Merge the closest two clusters ◦ Update the proximity matrix to reflect the proximity between the new cluster and the original clusters. ◦ Until only one cluster remains 8/20/2016 PATTERN RECOGNITION 45