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Agglomerative Clustering MCQ

10 Conceptual Questions with In-Depth Technical Explanations

Compare linkage criteria: Ward variance minimization, complete linkage, single linkage, and average linkage.

Agglomerative Clustering Questions

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10 Questions
1

In Single Linkage (minimum linkage) agglomerative clustering, how is the distance between two clusters A and B defined?

2

What notorious flaw is Single Linkage agglomerative clustering susceptible to?

3

How is the distance between clusters defined in Complete Linkage (maximum linkage)?

4

How does Average Linkage (UPGMA) define cluster proximity?

5

What is the objective of Ward's Linkage criterion in agglomerative clustering?

6

Which distance metric is strictly required by Ward's linkage criterion?

7

What is the Lance-Williams Algorithm in agglomerative clustering?

8

What happens if Complete Linkage is applied to data containing extreme isolated outliers?

9

Which linkage method is best suited if the target clusters are non-spherical, curved, or ring-shaped manifolds?

10

What is 'Inversion' (non-monotonicity) in hierarchical clustering, and which linkage methods can suffer from it?

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