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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Stat Assoc. 2011;106(495):1075–1084. doi: 10.1198/jasa.2011.tm10183

Figure 7.

Figure 7

The maximum minimax radius is the farthest that any point lies from its cluster’s prototype. We see that minimax linkage hierarchical clustering does indeed do a better job of making this quantity small compared with the standard linkages. (Left) Olivetti Faces dataset. (Right) Grolier Encyclopedia dataset. The online version of this figure is in color.