The Jaccard's coefficient approach of measuring similarity between observations
A) measures the distance as the true straight line distance between two points.
B) is a path with right turns as if one is walking a grid in a city.
C) makes calculations based on how dissimilar two observations are from each other.
D) measures the similarity between two observations with values that represent the minimum differences between two points.

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Jaccard's coefficient measures similarity between finite sample sets and is defined as the size of the intersection divided by the size of the union of the sample sets. It essentially calculates how dissimilar two observations are from each other by focusing on the shared attributes between the two.

The Jaccard's Coefficient Approach of Measuring Similarity Between Observations