From e099c28798865c06f91fb8fc9ee292c3f5bdba89 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ben-jaynes <1btjaynes@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 19:46:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] vault backup: 2026-05-28 19:46:06

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diff --git a/Running Start/CSB320 - Machine Learning Concepts/Class 5-28 (Clustering).md b/Running Start/CSB320 - Machine Learning Concepts/Class 5-28 (Clustering).md
index 64293c0..f53e632 100644
--- a/Running Start/CSB320 - Machine Learning Concepts/Class 5-28 (Clustering).md	
+++ b/Running Start/CSB320 - Machine Learning Concepts/Class 5-28 (Clustering).md	
@@ -48,5 +48,17 @@
 		- does not require number of clusters, requires stopping point
 		- Agglomerative
 			- starts with each instance as cluster and merges into larger clusters
+			- measures distances between all clusters and merges closest two into new cluster
 		- divisive
-			- starts with one cluster and splits into 
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+			- starts with one cluster and splits into smaller clusters
+		- linkage methods
+			- measure distance between two closes instances
+			- measure distance between two farthest instances
+			- distance between each cluster's centroid
+		- dendrograms
+			- used to visualize clustering hierarchy
+			- basically just a cladogram
+				- clades, links, leaves
+		- does not assume spherical clusters
+		- sensitive to outliers
+		- 
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