The ________ Is a Nonhierarchical Method That Allows for Later

question 58

Multiple Choice

The ________ is a nonhierarchical method that allows for later reassignment of objects to clusters to optimize an overall criterion.

• A) Ward's procedure
• B) optimizing partitioning method
• C) parallel threshold method
• D) sequential threshold method

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