Using two differents distance in the same clustering algorithm
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Hello,
I'm trying to create a clustering algorithm using a particular approach:
First, I want to use the mahalanobis distance to compute distance between observations (I do have the ML and optimization toolbox).
Then, my idea is to use the linkage function to create a tree. But the issue that I cannot find an answer for is that I want to compute distance between nodes using a distance that I created, which is different from the mahalanobis distance. The second distance is only working between clusters.
Thanks for your answers
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Dheeraj Singh
2019-8-19
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I understand that you want to use mahalanobis distance for calculating distance between clusters and then use a custom distance function to create a tree using linkage function.
Firstly, you can use pdist function to calculate distance between clusters using mahalanobis distance.
While creating a tree using linkagefunction you can define the custom distance function as a function handle. For more info about the different distance function please refer to the Distance metric section of the documentation of linkagefunction .
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