Genie: A new, fast, and outlier-resistant hierarchical clustering algorithm

•A new hierarchical clustering linkage criterion, called Genie, is proposed.•The criterion is based on the notion of an inequity measure, e.g., the Gini index.•The new algorithm has been tested on 29 benchmark sets.•The clustering quality outperforms the Ward and average linkage criteria.•The algori...

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