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Q. What is Principal Component Analysis (PCA), and how does it differ from clustering?
Q. Pros and Cons of Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) Clustering
Q. How does the EM algorithm (in the context of GMM) compare to K-Means?
Q. What is a Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)?
Q. What is Spectral co-clustering?
Q. What is Bi-Clustering? What are possible use cases of it?
Q. What is Spectral Clustering?
Q. How is clustering affected by high-dimensional data, and how can the quality of clusters generated be improved in such cases?
Q. What are some options for clustering on categorical data? What if the dataset contains a combination of numeric and categorical features?
Q. What are some of the pros and cons of hierarchical clustering compared to K-Means?
Q. What is a dendrogram, and how is it used in hierarchical clustering?
Q. How does imposing connectivity constraints help with Agglomerative clustering?
Q. What are some of the possible linkage types to use in order to form successive clusters?
Q. What are the two ways in which Hierarchical clustering can proceed?
Q. What are the Pros and Cons of K-Means Clustering?
Q. How do outliers affect the clusters formed in K-Means?
Q. How does K-Means ++ work?
Q. What is the effect of minimizing the within-cluster sum of squares on the shapes of clusters produced in K-Means?
Q. What loss function does K-Means seek to minimize?
Q. How does the initial choice of centroids affect the K-Means algorithm?
Q. How can you choose the optimal value for ‘k’ in K-Means?
Q. What is Jaccard Index / Distance?
Q. What is Cosine Similarity?
Q. What is Mahalanobis Distance?
Q. What is Euclidean Distance?
Q. What is Mutual Information (MI)?
Q. What is Adjusted Rand Index (ARI)?
Q. What is Rand Index?
Q. What is Dunn Index?
Q. What is Within Cluster Sum of Squares (WCSS)?
Q. What is Model-based Clustering?
Q. What is Hierarchical Clustering?
Q. What is Exclusive Clustering?
Q. What are the most common categories of clustering?
Q. What is Unsupervised learning?

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