A **medoid** is a representative value or object in a dataset, often used in cluster analysis. Unlike the mean or centroid (which is the average of all points in a cluster), the medoid is the actual data point that minimizes the dissimilarity (or distance) to all other points in the cluster. In other words, the medoid is the point that has the smallest sum of distances to all other points in the same cluster.
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