Average Linkage Is a Measure of Calculating Dissimilarity Between Two

question 8

Multiple Choice

Average linkage is a measure of calculating dissimilarity between two clusters by

• A)finding the distance between the two most dissimilar observations in the two clusters.
• B)computing the average distance between every pair of observations between two clusters.
• C)finding the distance between the two closest observations in the two clusters.
• D)computing the distance between the cluster centroids.

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