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| url = http://www.jea.acm.org/2000/EppsteinDynamic/
| volume = 5
| year = 2000| doi = 10.1145/351827.351829 | bibcode = 1999cs.......12014E | s2cid = 1357701 }}.</ref><ref name="day-edels">{{citation
| last1 = Day | first1 = William H. E.
| last2 = Edelsbrunner | first2 = Herbert | author2-link = Herbert Edelsbrunner
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| url = http://www.cs.duke.edu/~edels/Papers/1984-J-05-HierarchicalClustering.pdf
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| year = 1984| s2cid = 121201396
| year = 1984}}.</ref> The nearest-neighbor chain algorithm uses a smaller amount of time and space than the greedy algorithm by merging pairs of clusters in a different order. In this way, it avoids the problem of repeatedly finding closest pairs. Nevertheless, for many types of clustering problem, it can be guaranteed to come up with the same hierarchical clustering as the greedy algorithm despite the different merge order.<ref name="murtagh-tcj"/>
 
==The algorithm==