Manning, Christopher, Prabhakar Raghavan and Hinrich Schütze. 2008. “Flat Clustering” and “Hierarchical Clustering.” Chapters 16 and 17 from Introduction to Information Retrieval.
So there are several methods to evaluate these two methods, like the Rand index, etc. In most cases, the score for flat clustering is higher than that of the Hierarchical Clustering. Then if it was the other way around, why would that happen?
So there are several methods to evaluate these two methods, like the Rand index, etc. In most cases, the score for flat clustering is higher than that of the Hierarchical Clustering. Then if it was the other way around, why would that happen?