R help - Dec 2003 - amap : hclust agglomeration

Hi,
I'm trying to understand the complete linkage method in hclust. Can anyone
provide a breakdown of the formula (p9 of the pdf documentation) or tell me what
the "sup" operator does/means?

thanks in advance

Tom

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Thomas  -

"sup" stands for "supremum" or "maximum".  The
criterion for
complete linkage clustering is that the two groups with the
smallest maximum distance between any of their members will
be joined at each stage.

(I dare say you will have recieved many similar responses
already, but none on-list, so I venture to add one more.)

-  tom blackwell  -  u michigan medical school  -  ann arbor  -

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Finnie, Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to understand the complete linkage method in hclust.
> Can anyone provide a breakdown of the formula (p9 of the pdf
> documentation) or tell me what the "sup" operator does/means?
>
> thanks in advance
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