Average linkage is a measure of calculating dissimilarity between two clusters by
a. finding the distance between the two most dissimilar observations in the two clusters.
b. computing the average distance between every pair of observations between two clusters.
c. finding the distance between the two closest observations in the two clusters.
d. computing the distance between the cluster centroids.
b
RATIONALE: Average linkage measures dissimilarity between clusters by computing the average similarity between every pair of observations between two clusters.
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