Which of the following is true of hierarchical clustering?
A) All observations are put in a mega-cluster to begin with.
B) Each of the large clusters is broken down iteratively.
C) It is a bottom-up approach to clustering.
D) At the end of the process, observations in the same cluster have maximum distance.

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Bottom-up hierarchical clustering starts with each observation belonging to its own cluster and then sequentially merges the most similar clusters to create a series of nested clusters.

Which of the Following Is True of Hierarchical Clustering