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E20-007 · Question #54

You are using k-means clustering to classify heart patients for a hospital. You have chosen Patient Sex, Height, Weight, Age and Income as measures and have used 3 clusters. When you create a…

The correct answer is C. Decrease the number of clusters. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.

Question

You are using k-means clustering to classify heart patients for a hospital. You have chosen Patient Sex, Height, Weight, Age and Income as measures and have used 3 clusters. When you create a pair-wise plot of the clusters, you notice that there is significant overlap between the clusters. What should you do?

Options

  • AIdentify additional measures to add to the analysis
  • BRemove one of the measures
  • CDecrease the number of clusters
  • DIncrease the number of clusters

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  • A
    2% (1)
  • B
    9% (4)
  • C
    84% (38)
  • D
    4% (2)

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