SOA Exam SRM Sample Question 16
Study guide: Exam SRM
Determine which of the following statements is applicable to K-means clustering and is not applicable to hierarchical clustering.
- A) If two different people are given the same data and perform one iteration of the algorithm, their results at that point will be the same.
- B) At each iteration of the algorithm, the number of clusters will be greater than the number of clusters in the previous iteration of the algorithm.
- C) The algorithm needs to be run only once, regardless of how many clusters are ultimately decided to use.
- D) The algorithm must be initialized with an assignment of the data points to a cluster.
- E) None of (A), (B), (C), or (D) meet the meet the (as printed) stated criterion.
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