Question: (a) Consider a two-class classification problem, where two species of flowers, either Rose or Jasmine needs to be classified based on two image features,


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(a) Consider a two-class classification problem, where two species of flowers, either Rose or Jasmine needs to be classified based on two image features, Feature 1 and Feature 2. Figure 5 shows the plot for the two features. The circles represent the Jasmine flower and the squares represent the Rose flower. Based on these feature values, explain which feature has better discrimination power. Feature 2 Feature 1 Figure 5 (3/100) (b) When using the k-means clustering algorithm, how would you choose a suitable value for k? (3/100) (c) Apart from randomly initializing the k-cluster centers, suggest another method to initialize the cluster centers in k-means clustering. (3/100)

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