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Hierarchical Clustering Interview Questions & Answers

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  • Group of alike data points is known as

    • a) Clusters
    • b) Simple points
    • c) Group points
    • d) None

    Answer - a) Clusters

  • From the below find the data types on which we can perform clustering

    • a) Graphs
    • b) Time-series data
    • c) Multimedia data
    • d) All the above

    Answer - d) All the above

  • Agglomerative clustering is an example of____________ .

    • a) Hierarchical
    • b) Distance-based clustering
    • c) Both a and b
    • d) K means

      Answer - c) Both a and b

  • Clustering analysis is unsupervised learning since it does not require ______ training data.

    • a) Unlabeled
    • b) Labeled
    • c) Both
    • d) None of the above

    Answer - b) Labeled

  • A tree diagram used to show the arrangement of clusters in hierarchical clustering is known as_______.

    • a) Bar plot diagram
    • b) Histogram
    • c) Dendrogram
    • d) None

    Answer - c) Dendrogram

  • From the below, select the types of hierarchical clustering

    • a) Divisive
    • b) Agglomerative
    • c) K means
    • d) Both a and b

    Answer - d) Both a and b

  • Visualization of clustering results will be done only when we have two-dimensional data.

    • a) True
    • b) False

    Answer - b) False

  • We should know the no. of output clusters is a prior for all clustering algorithms.

    • a) True
    • b) False

    Answer - b) False

  • ________ is used most frequently to measure similarity

    • a) Manhattan Distance
    • b) Euclidean distance
    • c) Far by distance
    • d) None of the above

    Answer - b) Euclidean distance

  • _______stores the distances between each point.

    • a) Proximity matrix
    • b) Primary matrix
    • c) Minor data matrix
    • d) Proximity sensor

    Answer - a) Proximity matrix

  • Agglomerative Clustering is the ____________.

    • a) Top-down approach
    • b) Bottom-up approach
    • c) Side to side approach
    • d) Center to end approach

    Answer - b) Bottom up approach

  • Divisive Clustering is the ____________

    • a) Top-down approach
    • b) Bottom-up approach
    • c) Side to side approach
    • d) Center to end approach

    Answer - a) Top-down approach

  • From the below find the methods used to measure the similarity

    • a) Single linkage
    • b) Complete linkage
    • c) Average linkage
    • d) All the above

    Answer - d) All the above

  • Hierarchical clustering is also used for __________.

    • a) Finding na
    • b) Outlier detection
    • c) Fake value detection
    • d) All the above

    Answer - b) Outlier Detection

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