________ Are Agglomerative Methods of Hierarchical Clustering in Which Clusters

question 9

Multiple Choice

________ are agglomerative methods of hierarchical clustering in which clusters are generated to minimize the within-cluster variance.

• A) Centroid methods
• B) Variance methods
• C) Parallel methods
• D) Linkage methods

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