Question

Choose ALL the statements that are true for hierarchical agglomerative clustering
A) The number of clusters need to be pre-specified.
B) The output of the clustering algorithm depends oil the chclce.of the similarity metric.
C) The number of merge operations depends on the number of clusters desired.
D) The number of merge operations depends on the characteristics of the data set.

Answer 1

) The number of clusters need to be pre-specified.
B) The output of the clustering algorithm depends oil the chclce.of the similarity metric.
C) The number of merge operations depends on the number of clusters desired.

Answer 2

A) The number of clusters need to be pre-specified.

C) The number of merge operations depends on the number of clusters desired.