How do you compare the "similarity" between two dendrograms (in R) ?

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Published on 2010-02-07T21:23:28Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 23:03 UTC
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I have two dendrograms which I wish to compare to each other in order to find out how "similar" they are. But I don't know of any method to do so (let alone a code to implement it, say, in R).

Any leads ?

Thanks, Tal

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