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I am doing cluster analysis [hclust(Dist, method="average")] on data that potentially contains redundant objects. As expected, the inclusion of redundant objects affects the clustering result, i.e., the data a1, = a2, = a3, b, c, d, e1, = e2 is likely to cluster differently from the same data without the redundancy, i.e., a1, b, c, d, e1. This is apparent when the outcome is visualized