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Cluster Analysis True/False Questions
Cluster Analysis True/False Questions
True/False Questions
1. Cluster analysis does not classify variables as dependent or independent.
(True,
2. Cluster analysis is the obverse of factor analysis in that it reduces the number of
objects, not the number of variables, by grouping them into a much smaller number of
clusters.
(True,
3. If cluster analysis is used as a general data reduction tool, subsequent multivariate
analysis can be conducted on the clusters rather than on the individual observations.
(True,
4. The dendrogram is read from right to left.
(False,
5. Clustering should be done on samples of 300 or more.
(False,
6. In cluster analysis, objects with larger distances between them are more similar to
each other than are those at smaller distances.
(False,
7. The average linkage method of hierarchical clustering is preferred to the single and
complete linkage methods.
(True,
8. The centroid method is a variance method of hierarchical clustering in which the
distance between two clusters is the distance between their centroids (means for all
the variables).
(True,
9. Nonhierarchical clustering is faster than hierarchical methods.
(True,
10. It is helpful to profile the clusters in terms of variables that were not used for
clustering.
(True,
11. One method of assessing reliability and validity of clustering is to use different
methods of clustering and compare the results.
(True,
12. To reduce the number of variables, a large set of variables can often be replaced by
the set of cluster components.
(True,
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