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1. Which of the following clustering type has characteristic shown in the

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Books a) The choice of an appropriate metric will in uence the shape of the
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b) Hierarchical clustering is also called HCA
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a) nal estimate of cluster centroids
b) tree showing how close things are to each other
c) assignment of each point to clusters
d) all of the mentioned

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4. Which of the following is required by K-means clustering?

a) de ned distance metric
b) number of clusters
c) initial guess as to cluster centroids
d) all of the mentioned

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5. Point out the wrong statement.

a) k-means clustering is a method of vector quantization
b) k-means clustering aims to partition n observations into k clusters
c) k-nearest neighbor is same as k-means
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7. Hierarchical clustering should be primarily used for exploration.
Practice Test - Chapter 9 a) True
b) False
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8. Which of the following function is used for k-means clustering?
Mock Test - Chapter 2 a) k-means
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Mock Test - Chapter 3 c) heatmap

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Mock Test - Chapter 4 d) none of the mentioned

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Mock Test - Chapter 6 9. Which of the following clustering requires merging approach?
a) Partitional
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b) Hierarchical
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d) None of the mentioned
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10. K-means is not deterministic and it also consists of number of
iterations.
a) True
b) False

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