noun
- a branching diagram that shows the hierarchical relationship between objects, often used to illustrate the results of cluster analysis
Usage: technical; statistics
Examples
- The researcher created a dendrogram to visualize how the different species were related.
- The dendrogram clearly showed three distinct clusters in the data.
- Scientists use dendrograms to display evolutionary relationships between organisms.
- The statistical software automatically generated a dendrogram from the clustering analysis.
- By examining the dendrogram, we could identify which samples were most similar to each other.
- The dendrogram’s branching pattern revealed unexpected groupings in the dataset.