Which statement is not true about cluster analysis?
A) Groups or clusters are suggested by the data, not defined a priori.
B) Cluster analysis is a technique for analyzing data when the criterion or dependent variable is categorical and the independent variables are interval in nature.
C) Cluster analysis is also called classification analysis or numerical taxonomy.
D) Objects in each cluster tend to be similar to each other and dissimilar to objects in the other clusters.

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Cluster analysis does not require a dependent variable; it is an unsupervised learning technique used to group similar data points based on their features, without predefined categories.

Which Statement Is Not True About Cluster Analysis