10.8 Exercises

10.1 Briefly describe and give examples of each of the following approaches to clustering: partitioning methods, hierarchical methods, density-based methods, and grid-based methods.

10.2 Suppose that the data mining task is to cluster points (with (x, y) representing location) into three clusters, where the points are

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The distance function is Euclidean distance. Suppose initially we assign A1, B1, and C1 as the center of each cluster, respectively. Use the k-means algorithm to show only

(a) The three cluster centers after the first round of execution.

(b) The final three clusters.

10.3 Use an example to show why the k-means algorithm ...

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