Question: Perform agglomerative clustering on the accompanying data set. a. Include all five variables, first standardized to z -scores, for the analysis. Choose Euclidean for the
Perform agglomerative clustering on the accompanying data set.
a.Include all five variables, first standardized toz-scores, for the analysis. Choose Euclidean for the distance between observations and single linkage for the distance between clusters. Inspect the dendrogram. How many clusters are generated if the minimum distance between clusters is 5? The number of clusters?
b.Repeat part a but choose the complete linkage clustering method. The number of clusters?
c.Repeat part a but choose Ward's clustering method. The number of clusters?
| x1 | x2 | x3 | x4 | x5 |
| 14.5 | 497 | 8860.98 | 120 | 0.2605 |
| 15.7 | 614 | 7356.94 | 167 | 0.3025 |
| 14.9 | 544 | 9674.88 | 142 | 0.1681 |
| 12.2 | 438 | 8062.40 | 130 | 0.2017 |
| 14.4 | 518 | 5845.24 | 131 | 0.2857 |
| 15.5 | 556 | 9170.98 | 160 | 0.2353 |
| 12.8 | 456 | 6550.70 | 98 | 0.1261 |
| 15.3 | 566 | 9170.98 | 140 | 0.2353 |
| 15.0 | 588 | 8501.52 | 166 | 0.2773 |
| 15.2 | 617 | 10682.68 | 167 | 0.2521 |
| 15.7 | 587 | 7860.84 | 146 | 0.3109 |
| 15.7 | 554 | 9395.88 | 143 | 0.1681 |
| 16.2 | 599 | 4155.38 | 100 | 0.1025 |
| 15.4 | 575 | 6651.48 | 132 | 0.2437 |
| 14.7 | 474 | 7457.72 | 101 | 0.1597 |
| 11.7 | 440 | 8823.52 | 135 | 0.2941 |
| 13.0 | 426 | 4434.32 | 112 | 0.1345 |
| 14.5 | 449 | 8566.30 | 94 | 0.1513 |
| 16.2 | 608 | 7155.38 | 155 | 0.2437 |
| 13.4 | 509 | 7123.04 | 140 | 0.1235 |
| 13.6 | 518 | 7558.50 | 171 | 0.2269 |
| 15.1 | 594 | 9674.88 | 157 | 0.2185 |
| 15.5 | 558 | 11704.26 | 166 | 0.1128 |
| 13.6 | 470 | 7256.16 | 123 | 0.1051 |
| 13.4 | 455 | 7039.26 | 138 | 0.2857 |
| 14.8 | 476 | 5240.56 | 99 | 0.1080 |
| 15.8 | 653 | 12020.92 | 201 | 0.1681 |
| 14.7 | 449 | 7457.72 | 95 | 0.2017 |
| 13.6 | 534 | 7356.94 | 153 | 0.2269 |
| 13.9 | 529 | 6953.82 | 158 | 0.3613 |
| 13.9 | 582 | 8566.30 | 144 | 0.1429 |
| 12.8 | 486 | 6651.48 | 132 | 0.2185 |
| 14.7 | 512 | 7760.06 | 140 | 0.2521 |
| 14.9 | 576 | 6651.48 | 156 | 0.2437 |
| 12.8 | 511 | 8566.30 | 150 | 0.2185 |
| 13.8 | 526 | 6752.26 | 148 | 0.3529 |
| 16.2 | 603 | 9876.44 | 192 | 0.2605 |
| 15.7 | 662 | 9372.54 | 201 | 0.2269 |
| 14.7 | 597 | 8263.96 | 170 | 0.2353 |
| 14.2 | 495 | 5139.78 | 119 | 0.2269 |
| 14.1 | 469 | 7860.84 | 114 | 0.2773 |
| 15.5 | 542 | 12899.84 | 154 | 0.2017 |
| 14.7 | 511 | 6752.26 | 124 | 0.2689 |
| 13.9 | 551 | 9070.20 | 130 | 0.2101 |
| 14.9 | 536 | 8969.42 | 133 | 0.2521 |
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