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This data set has 5 observations.
id x1 x2
<int> <dbl> <dbl>
1 1 -1.29 0.56
2 2 0.92 -0.40
3 3 0.61 -0.59
4 4 -0.77 -0.29
5 5 2.12 -0.14
The following is the interpoint distance matrix between the 5 observations.
1 2 3 4
2 2.6
3 3.0 1.1
4 3.2 2.6 1.7
5 5.3 3.2 2.5 3.1
Observations 2 and 3 would be joined at the first step in hierarchical clustering, at a distance of 1.1. If observation 4 is then joined at the next step, using complete linkage, what would be the distance reported between cluster (2,3) and observation 4?