Average Linkage Is a Measure of Calculating Dissimilarity Between Clusters

question 31

Multiple Choice

Average 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 closest observations in the two clusters.
• D) considering the distance between the cluster centroids.

Calculate degrees of freedom and understand its impact on distributions.

Identify the distributions that can take on negative values.

Compute and interpret the mean, variance, and standard deviation for specific distributions.

Understand the skewness of statistical distributions and identify non-skewed distributions.

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