@@ -778,11 +778,12 @@ by black points below.
778778Birch
779779=====
780780
781- The :class: `Birch ` builds a tree called the Characteristic Feature Tree(CFT) for
782- the given data. The data is essentially lossy compressed to a set of Characteristic
783- Feature nodes (CF Nodes). The CF Nodes have a number of subclusters called
784- Characteristic Feature subclusters (CF Subclusters) and these CF Subclusters
785- located in the non-terminal CF Nodes can have CF Nodes as children.
781+ The :class: `Birch ` builds a tree called the Characteristic Feature Tree (CFT)
782+ for the given data. The data is essentially lossy compressed to a set of
783+ Characteristic Feature nodes (CF Nodes). The CF Nodes have a number of
784+ subclusters called Characteristic Feature subclusters (CF Subclusters)
785+ and these CF Subclusters located in the non-terminal CF Nodes
786+ can have CF Nodes as children.
786787
787788The CF Subclusters hold the necessary information for clustering which prevents
788789the need to hold the entire input data in memory. This information includes:
@@ -804,7 +805,7 @@ from the leaves of the CFT. This reduced data can be further processed by feedin
804805it into a global clusterer. This global clusterer can be set by ``n_clusters ``.
805806If ``n_clusters `` is set to None, the subclusters from the leaves are directly
806807read off, otherwise a global clustering step labels these subclusters into global
807- clusters(labels) and the samples are mapped to the global label of the nearest subcluster.
808+ clusters (labels) and the samples are mapped to the global label of the nearest subcluster.
808809
809810**Algorithm description: **
810811
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860861 JBirch - Java implementation of BIRCH clustering algorithm
861862 https://code.google.com/p/jbirch/
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864+
863865.. _clustering_evaluation :
864866
865867Clustering performance evaluation
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