This report discusses an algorithm for merging hyperellipsoidal clusters. The effective merging radius between two clusters is introduced, and this measure is used to determine the order in which clusters are combined. We continue to merge clusters until a desired number of clusters is reached, or until the minimum effective merging radius is larger than some predetermined threshold.
P.M. Kelly. An Algorithm for Merging Hyperellipsoidal Clusters. Los Alamos Technical Report LA-UR-94-3306, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 1994. [ Abstract | PDF (136 KB) ]
