Comparar métodos

	Estadística Gap	Índice Calinski-Harabasz	Método del Codo	Inercia
Campo	Evaluación de modelos	Evaluación de modelos	Evaluación de modelos	Evaluación de modelos
Familia	MCDM	MCDM	MCDM	MCDM
Año de origen	2001	1974	1953	1967
Autor original	Robert Tibshirani, Guenther Walther, Trevor Hastie	Tadeusz Calinski, Jerzy Harabasz	Robert Thorndike	Stuart Lloyd, James MacQueen
Tipo	Statistical criterion	Cluster quality metric	Heuristic optimization criterion	Clustering quality metric
Fuente seminal	Tibshirani, R., Walther, G., & Hastie, T. (2001). Estimating the number of clusters in a data set via the gap statistic. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 63(2), 411-423.	Calinski, T., & Harabasz, J. (1974). A dendrite method for cluster analysis. Communications in Statistics, 3(1), 1-27.	Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R., & Friedman, J. (2009). The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction. Springer Series in Statistics.	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129-137.
Alias	gap index, Tibshirani gap statistic	variance ratio criterion, pseudo F-statistic, CH index	elbow analysis, knee detection	WCSS, within-cluster sum of squares, cluster cohesion
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Resumen	The Gap Statistic, developed by Tibshirani, Walther, and Hastie in 2001, is a principled statistical method for determining the optimal number of clusters in a dataset. It compares the observed within-cluster sum of squares to the expected value under a null hypothesis of no clustering structure, providing a theoretically grounded approach to cluster number selection.	The Calinski-Harabasz Index, also called the Variance Ratio Criterion, was introduced by Calinski and Harabasz in 1974. It is a metric that measures the ratio of between-cluster variance to within-cluster variance, adjusted for the number of clusters and data points. Higher values indicate better-separated, more compact clusters.	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.	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.