Which of the Following Uses the Sum of Squares Between

question 20

Multiple Choice

Which of the following uses the sum of squares between the objects in the cluster when measuring their distances?

• A) divisive clustering
• B) average group linkage clustering
• C) Ward's hierarchical clustering
• D) single linkage clustering

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