15.071 | Spring 2017 | Graduate

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6.3 Predictive Diagnosis: Discovering Patterns for Disease Detection

6.3 Predictive Diagnosis: Discovering Patterns for Disease Detection

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K-means clustering differs from Hierarchical clustering in a couple important ways. Which of the following statements is true?

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Explanation In k-means clustering, you have to pick the number of clusters before you run the algorithm, but the computational effort needed is much less than that for hierarchical clustering (we'll see this in more detail during the recitation).

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