পদ্ধতির তুলনা করুন

	ইনার্শিয়া (Inertia)	কনুই পদ্ধতি
ক্ষেত্র	মডেল মূল্যায়ন	মডেল মূল্যায়ন
পরিবার	MCDM	MCDM
উদ্ভবের বছর	1967	1953
প্রবর্তক	Stuart Lloyd, James MacQueen	Robert Thorndike
ধরন	Clustering quality metric	Heuristic optimization criterion
মৌলিক উৎস	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129-137.	Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R., & Friedman, J. (2009). The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction. Springer Series in Statistics.
অপর নাম	WCSS, within-cluster sum of squares, cluster cohesion	elbow analysis, knee detection
সম্পর্কিত	5	5
সারসংক্ষেপ	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 Elbow Method is a heuristic for selecting the optimal number of clusters in partitional clustering. Introduced by Robert Thorndike in 1953, it involves fitting clustering models for increasing numbers of clusters and plotting the within-cluster sum of squares (WCSS) against the number of clusters. The 'elbow' occurs where the rate of WCSS decrease sharply changes, suggesting an optimal cluster count.