CAS Exam MAS-II Fall 2019, Question 40

Study guide: Exam MAS-II

You are given three statements about the k-means clustering algorithm.

I. The k-means clustering algorithm requires that observations be standardized to have mean zero and standard deviation one. II. The k-means clustering algorithm seeks to find subgroups of homogeneous observations. III. The k-means clustering algorithm looks for a low-dimensional representation of the observations that explains a significant amount of the variance.

Determine which of the statements I, II or III are true.

• A) I only
• B) II only
• C) III only
• D) I, II, and III
• E) The answer is not given by (A), (B), (C), or (D)

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Concepts tested

• K-Means Clustering
• Clustering
• Unsupervised Learning
• Principal Components Analysis

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