Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Ιεραρχική ομαδοποίηση	Ομαδοποίηση K-means
Πεδίο	Μηχανική Μάθηση	Μηχανική Μάθηση
Οικογένεια	Machine learning	Machine learning
Έτος προέλευσης	1963	1967 (formalized 1982)
Δημιουργός	Ward, J. H.	MacQueen, J. B.; Lloyd, S. P.
Τύπος	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)	Partitional clustering
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129–137.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering	k-means clustering, Lloyd's algorithm, k-means partitioning, hard k-means
Συναφείς	4	4
Σύνοψη	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 is a classic unsupervised partitional clustering algorithm that divides a dataset into K non-overlapping groups by iteratively assigning each observation to its nearest centroid and updating centroids as the mean of their assigned points. It is one of the most widely used exploratory tools in machine learning and data analysis.