Question 01

Will we call cluster analysis a dimension reduction technique?

1 Yes
2 No
3 Can’t say
4 None of the Above

Question 02

Given that the 2 clusters out of 5 clusters formed have almost the same mean values, what would be the
next best step?

1 Increase the number of K

2 Decrease the number of K
3 Can’t say
4 None of the Above

Question 03

When does the kmeans algorithm stop further iterations?

1 When the arithmetic mean of cluster centres don’t change substantially

2 When the elements of data stop getting reallocated to other cluster
3 Both of the Above
4 None of the Above

Question 04

K-means is an iterative algorithm?

1 Yes
2 No
3 Can’t say
4 None of the Above

Question 05

Can you limit the number of iterations in a K-means algorithm?

1 Yes
2 No
3 Can’t say
4 None of the Above
Question 06

Which of the following is a typical attribute of K means algorithm?

1. It uses median for cluster formation

2. It allows reallocation of units at each iteration
3. It allocates the same observation to more than one cluster
4. None of the above

Question 07

Which of the following is a typical attribute of K means algorithm?

1. It uses median for cluster formation

2. It allows reallocation of units at each iteration
3. It allocates the same observation to more than one cluster
4. None of the above

Question 08

When the data is fed to a clustering algorithm like kmeans without scaling then which of these are
possible outcomes?

1. Linear pattern of cluster centres

2. Quadratic pattern of cluster centres
3. Blocked pattern of cluster centres
4. trend

Answer Key

1) 2

2) 2

3) 3

4) 1

5) 1

6) 2

7) 2

8) 1