قارن الطرق

	القصور الذاتي	مؤشر ديفيز-بولدن
المجال	تقييم النماذج	تقييم النماذج
العائلة	MCDM	MCDM
سنة النشأة	1967	1979
صاحب الطريقة	Stuart Lloyd, James MacQueen	David L. Davies, Donald W. Bouldin
النوع	Clustering quality metric	Cluster quality metric
المصدر التأسيسي	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129-137.	Davies, D. L., & Bouldin, D. W. (1979). A cluster separation measure. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1(2), 224-227.
الأسماء البديلة	WCSS, within-cluster sum of squares, cluster cohesion	DBI, Davies Bouldin index
ذات صلة	5	5
الملخص	Inertia, also called Within-Cluster Sum of Squares (WCSS), is a measure of cluster cohesion that quantifies how tightly points are grouped around their cluster centroids. Lower values indicate more compact, cohesive clusters. Inertia is the primary objective function for k-means clustering and has been a fundamental metric since the method's introduction.	The Davies-Bouldin Index, introduced by Davies and Bouldin in 1979, is a metric for evaluating clustering quality based on the average similarity between each cluster and its most similar neighboring cluster. Lower values indicate better clustering, with a minimum of 0 representing perfectly separated, non-overlapping clusters.