SOA Exam SRM Sample Question 40

Study guide: Exam SRM

Determine which of the following statements about clustering is/are true.

• I. Cutting a dendrogram at a lower height will not decrease the number of clusters.

• II. K-means clustering requires plotting the data before determining the number of clusters.

• III. For a given number of clusters, hierarchical clustering can sometimes yield less accurate results than K-means clustering.

• A) None

• B) I and II only

• C) I and III only

• D) II and III only

• E) The correct answer is not given by (A), (B), (C), or (D).

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Concepts tested

• Clustering
• Dendrogram
• Hierarchical Clustering
• K-Means Clustering

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