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Exam DISC-DA Practice Question 226

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A homeowners analyst runs K-means clustering on policy characteristics (dwelling age, square footage, construction, distance to coast and protection class), with no loss data, and gets five well-separated clusters. She proposes using the five clusters as new rating segments. What should be done before the clusters are used as segments?

  • A) Test whether the clusters differ in loss experience and are credible and stable
  • B) Nothing further, since K-means found five clearly separated clusters
  • C) Rerun K-means with more clusters until every cluster has the same loss ratio
  • D) Replace the clusters with alphabetical groupings of the protection classes

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