Homework 4

Clustering II; Dimensionality reduction

Materials

📝 Template (.Rmd) — start here; fill in each section
📄 Assignment (PDF) — readable version of the questions
📊 Data — Part A (penguins.csv) — same data as Assignment 3, Part B
📊 Data — Part B (assign3_data.csv) — same data as Assignment 3, Part A

Instructions

Open the R Markdown template, knit it once to confirm your environment is set up, and complete each problem in the appropriate section. Submit a knitted PDF (and optionally the .Rmd source) via Canvas before the deadline.

Important

Remember to set eval = TRUE below when compiling the report.

Reproducibility

Set a random seed at the top of your .Rmd so your simulation results don’t change between knits. Use set.seed(42), as the assignment asks.