ClusterHierarchical.Method Property

ClusterHierarchicalMethod Property

The clustering method.

Namespace: Imsl.Stat
Assembly: ImslCS (in ImslCS.dll) Version: 6.5.2.0

Syntax

public virtual ClusterHierarchicalLinkage Method { get; set; }

Public Overridable Property Method As ClusterHierarchicalLinkage
	Get
	Set

public:
virtual property ClusterHierarchicalLinkage Method {
	ClusterHierarchicalLinkage get ();
	void set (ClusterHierarchicalLinkage value);
}

abstract Method : ClusterHierarchicalLinkage with get, set
override Method : ClusterHierarchicalLinkage with get, set

Type: ClusterHierarchicalLinkage
A ClusterHierarchical.Linkage identifying the clustering method to use.

Remarks

By Default, Method = Linkage.Single.

Method	Description
Single	Single linkage (minimum distance).
Complete	Complete linkage (maximum distance).
AvgWithinClusters	Average distance within (average distance between objects within he merged cluster).
AvgBetweenClusters	Average distance between (average distance between objects in the two clusters).
Wards	Ward's method (minimize the within-cluster sums of squares). For Ward's method, the elements of dist are assumed to be Euclidean distances.