Hi, I'm clustering objects defined by categorical variables with a hierarchical algorithm - average linkage. My distance matrix (general dissimilarity coefficient) includes several distances with exactly the same values. As I see, a standard agglomerative procedure ignores this problems, simply selecting, above equal distances, the one that comes first. For this reason the analysis in output depends strongly on the orderings of the objects within the raw data matrix. Is there a standard procedure to deal with this? Thanks Bruno
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