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CAS Exam MAS-II Fall 2018, Question 42

Study guide: Exam MAS-II

You are provided the following data set with a single variable X.

i X
1 9
2 15
3 4
4 2
5 18

A dendogram is built from this data set using agglomerative hierarchical clustering with complete linkage and Euclidean distance as the dissimilarity measure.

Calculate the tree height at which observation i = 1 fuses.

  • A) Less than 6
  • B) 6
  • C) 7
  • D) 8
  • E) At least 9

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