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scipy.cluster.hierarchy.ward

scipy.cluster.hierarchy.ward(y)

Performs Ward’s linkage on a condensed or redundant distance matrix. See linkage for more information on the return structure and algorithm.

The following are common calling conventions:

1. Z = ward(y) Performs Ward’s linkage on the condensed distance matrix Z. See linkage for more information on the return structure and algorithm.
2. Z = ward(X) Performs Ward’s linkage on the observation matrix X using Euclidean distance as the distance metric. See linkage for more information on the return structure and algorithm.

Parameters :

Q : ndarray

A condensed or redundant distance matrix. A condensed distance matrix is a flat array containing the upper triangular of the distance matrix. This is the form that pdist returns. Alternatively, a collection of m observation vectors in n dimensions may be passed as a m by n array.

Returns :

Z : ndarray

The hierarchical clustering encoded as a linkage matrix.

See also

linkage

for advanced creation of hierarchical clusterings.