Single Linkage Is a Measure of Calculating Dissimilarity Between Clusters

question 37

Multiple Choice

Single linkage is a measure of calculating dissimilarity between clusters by

• A)considering only the two most dissimilar observations in the two clusters.
• B)computing the average dissimilarity between every pair of observations between the two clusters.
• C)considering only the two most similar observations in the two clusters.
• D)considering the distance between the cluster centroids.

Apply statistical tests to detect autocorrelation in a dataset.

Understand and apply the Durbin-Watson test for detecting autocorrelation in regression analysis.

Interpret regression analysis output, including the analysis of variance table.

Formulate and test hypotheses in the context of regression analysis.

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