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  1. President of the British Classification Society, Director Wilton Place, Dublin, Ireland

    Fionn Murtagh

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  1. Department of Statistics and Informatics, Faculty of Economics, University of Kragujevac, City of Kragujevac, Serbia

    Miodrag Lovric

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Murtagh, F. (2011). Hierarchical Clustering. In: Lovric, M. (eds) International Encyclopedia of Statistical Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04898-2_288

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