What is the main difference between agglomerative and divisive hierarchical clustering?
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What is the main difference between agglomerative and divisive hierarchical clustering?
Agglomerative starts with individual points, while divisive starts with one cluster
Agglomerative is faster than divisive
Divisive clustering is more commonly used than agglomerative
There is no difference; they are the same
Agglomerative clustering begins with individual data points and merges them into clusters, while divisive clustering starts with one cluster and splits it into smaller clusters.
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Q: What is the main difference between agglomerative and divisive hierarchical clustering?
Solution: Agglomerative clustering begins with individual data points and merges them into clusters, while divisive clustering starts with one cluster and splits it into smaller clusters.
