Section outline

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    f) Hierarchical clustering

    Reading: Sec 14.3.12 in ESL


    Basic Concepts in Dimensionality Reduction

    a) Metric, distance and scalar product

    Reading: Sec 4.2.1 in NDR

    b) Principal component analysis (PCA) 

    Reading: Sec 2.4.1-2 (up to Eq. 2.19) in NDR