noun
- tree-like diagrams that show the hierarchical relationships between data points or groups, commonly used in statistics and data analysis
Usage: technical; statistics
Examples
- The researcher used dendrograms to visualize how the species were related.
- Dendrograms help scientists understand evolutionary relationships between organisms.
- The data analyst created dendrograms to show customer groupings.
- Students learned to interpret dendrograms in their statistics class.
- The software automatically generates dendrograms from the clustering analysis.
- Dendrograms make it easier to identify patterns in large datasets.