11/10/24, 2:14 PM Quiz 1 - K-Means, DBSCAN and Hierarchical clustering : Machine Learning 3 - Olympus LMS

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Quiz 1 - K-Means, DBSCAN and Hierarchical clustering

Type : Graded Quiz
Attempts : 1/1
Questions : 15
Time : 25m
Due Date : Nov 10, 11:59 PM IST

Your Marks : 14/15

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Attempt #1
Marks: 14
Nov 10, 2:12 PM

Q No: 1 Correct Answer

Marks: 1/1
Which of the following is the aim of K-means clustering?

Reduce the variation between the clusters

Reduce the variation within the clusters You Selected

Reduce the variation between and within the clusters

None of the above

Q No: 2 Correct Answer

Marks: 1/1
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The initial metrics distance between B and A is 4, and the distance between C and A is 6.
Assuming the cluster BC is formed, what is the distance between the cluster (BC) and A using
complete and single link method

4,6

6,4 You Selected

4,5

5,6

Q No: 3 Correct Answer

Marks: 1/1
The average intra-cluster distance is given as 4.2 and the average inter-cluster distance is given
as 5.7. Calculate the silhouette coefficient.

0.1248

0.2632 You Selected

0.5623

0.4524

Q No: 4 Correct Answer

Marks: 1/1
Which of the following uses merging approach?

Density based clustering

Hierarchical clustering You Selected

Partitioned clustering

Distance based clustering

Q No: 5 Incorrect Answer

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Marks: 0/1
How many clusters will be formed at the end of final step in Agglomerative clustering ?

log(n), where n is number of samples

Based on choice of K You Selected

1 Correct Option

Q No: 6 Correct Answer

Marks: 1/1
Elbow graph is drawn between which of the following two parameters?

Number of clusters (K) Vs Sum of square error within cluster You Selected

. Number of clusters (K) vs sum of square of distance between the point from one cluster to
other

Number of clusters (K) vs Silhouette score

Number of clusters (K) Vs Manhattan distance

Q No: 7 Correct Answer

Marks: 1/1
Which of the following equation can be used to compute Euclidean distance?

(x2 - x1) + (y2 - y1)

Square root of ((x2 - x1)² + (y2 - y1)²) You Selected

None of the given options

(x2 - x1)² + (y2 - y1)²

Q No: 8 Correct Answer

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What is the minimum no. of variables/ features required to perform clustering?

1 You Selected

Q No: 9 Correct Answer

Marks: 1/1
Why are linkage methods used?

To measure inter-cluster distance You Selected

To link all the clusters

To measure intra-cluster distance

To link the similar clusters

Q No: 10 Correct Answer

Marks: 1/1
Find the Euclidian distance between the points (2,4,0) and (4,2,1)

3 You Selected

2.35

4.34

Q No: 11 Correct Answer

Marks: 1/1

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Which of the following characteristics are used in determining the optimal set of clusters?

Small clusters

Both compact and distinct clusters You Selected

Distinct clusters

Compact clusters

Q No: 12 Correct Answer

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For which algorithm/s, there is no need to pre-specify the number of clusters?

DBSCAN

Both DBSCAN and Hierarchical clustering You Selected

K-Means

Hierarchical clustering

Q No: 13 Correct Answer

Marks: 1/1

Assume, you want to cluster 7 observations into 3 clusters using K-Means clustering algorithm.
After first iteration clusters, C1, C2, C3 has following observations:

C1: {(2,2), (4,4), (6,6)}

C2: {(0,4), (4,0)}

C3: {(6,6), (10,10)}

What will be the cluster centroids if you want to proceed for second iteration?

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None of these

C1: (2,2), C2: (0,0), C3: (5,5)

C1: (6,6), C2: (4,4), C3: (9,9)

C1: (4,4), C2: (2,2), C3: (8,8) You Selected

Q No: 14 Correct Answer

Marks: 1/1
Which of the following clustering algorithm is most sensitive to outliers?

KNN

DBSCAN

K-Means You Selected

K- Modes

Q No: 15 Correct Answer

Marks: 1/1
For which value of p, Minkowski distance is equal to the Euclidean distance ?

2 You Selected

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