The K-Means Algorithm Terminates When

question 2

Multiple Choice

The K-Means algorithm terminates when

• A) a user-defined minimum value for the summation of squared error differences between instances and their corresponding cluster center is seen.
• B) the cluster centers for the current iteration are identical to the cluster centers for the previous iteration.
• C) the number of instances in each cluster for the current iteration is identical to the number of instances in each cluster of the previous iteration.
• D) the number of clusters formed for the current iteration is identical to the number of clusters formed in the previous iteration.

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