In single linkage, the distance between two clusters is the minimum distance between an observation in one cluster and an observation in the other cluster. Single linkage has many desirable ...

If the population clusters are sufficiently well separated, almost any clustering method performs well, as demonstrated in the following example using single linkage. In this and subsequent examples, ...

Single-linkage clustering performs abysmally on most real-world data sets, and gene expression data is no exception 7,8,9. It is included in almost every single clustering package 'for ...