Which of the following is true of the agglomerative clustering approach?
A) At the end of the process, all observations are included in a single cluster.
B) The most dissimilar observations are sequentially separated from the initial 100-observation cluster.
C) The process starts with a single cluster of 100 and quickly ends up with 100 different clusters.
D) All observations are initially assigned to a single cluster.

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Agglomerative clustering starts with each observation as its own cluster and merges them step by step until all observations are in a single cluster.

Which of the Following Is True of the Agglomerative Clustering