In the ________ method of linking individual observations both within and between clusters, similarity is defined by the group average of observations from one cluster to all observations from another cluster.
A) bell crank linkage
B) single linkage
C) average linkage
D) complete linkage

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The average linkage method, also known as UPGMA (Unweighted Pair Group Method with Arithmetic Mean), defines the similarity between two clusters based on the average distance between each observation in one cluster to every observation in the other cluster. This method is used in hierarchical clustering to decide how clusters should be combined at each step of the clustering process.

In the ________ Method of Linking Individual Observations Both Within