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Week 1 1) Which of the following is true about cluster analysis? 1 point

Week 2 Cluster analysis is the process of grouping objects into subsets that have meaning in the
context of a particular problem.
Cluster
Analysis- Part II Clustering is referred to as an unsupervised learning method

Cluster It can uncover previously undetected relationships in a complex dataset

Analysis- Part
III All of the above

Cluster No, the answer is incorrect.

Analysis- Part Score: 0
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Cluster All of the above
Analysis- Part
V 2) _____ is a clustering procedure characterized by the development of a tree-like structure. 1 point

Cluster
Analysis- Part Non-hierarchical clustering
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Hierarchical clustering
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k- means clustering
Assignment 2
None of the above
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Week 4 Hierarchical clustering

3) Which method of analysis does not classify variables as dependent or independent? 1 point
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4) HAC stands for- 1 point

Hierarchical aggregative clustering

Hierarchical agglomerative clustering

Heightened agglomerative clustering

Hierarchical absolute clustering

No, the answer is incorrect.

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Hierarchical agglomerative clustering

5) Which of the following is true about single link clustering? 1 point

distance between clusters is the maximum distance between their members

distance between two clusters as the minimum distance between their members

distance between two clusters as the average distance between their members

None of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

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distance between two clusters as the minimum distance between their members

6) Which statement is not true about cluster analysis? 1 point

Objects in each cluster tend to be similar to each other and dissimilar to objects in the other
clusters.

Cluster analysis is also called classification analysis or numerical taxonomy.

Groups or clusters are suggested by the data, not defined a priori.

Cluster analysis is a technique for analyzing data when the criterion or dependent variable is
categorical and the independent variables are interval in nature.

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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Cluster analysis is a technique for analyzing data when the criterion or dependent variable is categorical
and the independent variables are interval in nature.

7) Which of the following is true about Ward’s method? 1 point

Follows minimum variance criterion which minimizes the total within-cluster variance.

Criterion applied in hierarchical cluster analysis.

The nearest neighbor chain algorithm can be used to find the same cluster.

All of the above

No, the answer is incorrect.

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All of the above

8) What would be the loss of information if we cluster following observations into a single 1 point
group under ward’s method?

(0, 0, 3, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5)

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10.5

23

23.6

No, the answer is incorrect.

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23.6

9) What would be the loss of information if we cluster following observations into six groups 1 point
under ward’s method?

(0, 0, 3, 3, 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 5)

0.5

10

No, the answer is incorrect.

Score: 0
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0

10)A _____ is a tree diagram for displaying clustering results. Vertical lines represent clusters 1 point
that are joined together.

dendrogram

scatterplot

scree plot

Histogram

No, the answer is incorrect.

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dendrogram

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