Multiple Choice
In the k-means clustering analysis, the silhouette score is calculated ________.
A) when a cluster seed is randomly selected and designated as the initial cluster centroid
B) before the algorithm randomly assigns each observation to one of the k clusters
C) when the analyst decides on k initial subgroups to experiment with
D) after the cluster algorithm has assigned each observation to a cluster
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