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package smile.clustering.linkage;

/**
 * Weighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic mean. WPGMA down-weights the
 * largest group by giving equal weights to the two branches of the dendrogram
 * that are about to fuse.
 * 

* Note that the terms weighted and unweighted refer to the final result, * not the math by which it is achieved. Thus the simple averaging in WPGMA * produces a weighted result, and the proportional averaging in UPGMA produces * an unweighted result. * * @author Haifeng Li */ public class WPGMALinkage extends Linkage { /** * Constructor. * @param proximity the proximity matrix to store the distance measure of * dissimilarity. To save space, we only need the lower half of matrix. */ public WPGMALinkage(double[][] proximity) { init(proximity); } @Override public String toString() { return "WPGMA linkage"; } @Override public void merge(int i, int j) { for (int k = 0; k < i; k++) { proximity[index(i, k)] = (d(i, k) + d(j, k)) / 2; } for (int k = i+1; k < size; k++) { proximity[index(k, i)] = (d(k, i) + d(j, k)) / 2; } } }





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