Toric ideals with linear components: an algebraic interpretation of clustering the cells of a contingency table

In this paper we show that the agglomeration of rows or columns of a contingency table with a hierarchical clustering algorithm yields statistical models defined through toric ideals. In particular, starting from the classical independence model, the agglomeration process adds a linear part to the toric ideal generated by the $2 \times 2$ minors.

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