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The word of cluster analysis alias clustering has become popular nowadays in the field of data analysis. It means a family of methods of grouping objects.

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Miyamoto, S. (2022). Introduction. In: Theory of Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering. Behaviormetrics: Quantitative Approaches to Human Behavior, vol 15. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0420-2_1

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