পদ্ধতির তুলনা করুন

	Hierarchical Clustering	K-Means ক্লাস্টারিং
ক্ষেত্র	যন্ত্র শিখন	যন্ত্র শিখন
পরিবার	Machine learning	Machine learning
উদ্ভবের বছর	1963	1967
প্রবর্তক	Ward, J. H.	MacQueen, J.
ধরন	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)	Partitional clustering (centroid-based)
মৌলিক উৎস	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.	MacQueen, J. (1967). Some Methods for Classification and Analysis of Multivariate Observations. Proceedings of the 5th Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, 1, 281–297.
অপর নাম	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering	K-Ortalamalar Kümeleme, k-ortalamalar kümeleme, k-means, centroid clustering
সম্পর্কিত	4	3
সারসংক্ষেপ	Hierarchical clustering is an unsupervised method that groups observations into nested clusters and draws the result as a dendrogram, so the number of clusters need not be fixed in advance. Its agglomerative form rests on the objective-function grouping criterion introduced by Joe Ward in 1963.	K-Means Clustering is a centroid-based partitional clustering algorithm, traced to J. MacQueen in 1967, that splits data into k clusters by assigning each observation to its nearest cluster centre. It is widely used for marketing segmentation, customer grouping, and exploratory analysis.