With hierarchical clustering, outliers often show up as one-point clusters.
Generate three Gaussian distributions to illustrate the effect of outliers.
set.seed(656)
x = c(rnorm(150, 0, 1), rnorm(150,9,1), rnorm(150,4.5,1))
y = c(rnorm(150, 0, 1), rnorm(150,0,1), rnorm(150,5,1))
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