Comparer des méthodes

	Indice de Calinski-Harabasz	Indice de Davies-Bouldin	Indice de Dunn
Domaine	Évaluation de modèles	Évaluation de modèles	Évaluation de modèles
Famille	MCDM	MCDM	MCDM
Année d'origine	1974	1979	1974
Auteur d'origine	Tadeusz Calinski, Jerzy Harabasz	David L. Davies, Donald W. Bouldin	Joseph C. Dunn
Type	Cluster quality metric	Cluster quality metric	Cluster quality metric
Source fondatrice	Calinski, T., & Harabasz, J. (1974). A dendrite method for cluster analysis. Communications in Statistics, 3(1), 1-27.	Davies, D. L., & Bouldin, D. W. (1979). A cluster separation measure. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1(2), 224-227.	Dunn, J. C. (1974). Well-separated clusters and optimal fuzzy partitions. Journal of Cybernetics, 4(1), 95-104.
Alias	variance ratio criterion, pseudo F-statistic, CH index	DBI, Davies Bouldin index	Dunn's index, separation coefficient
Apparentées	5	5	5
Résumé	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 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.	The Dunn Index, introduced by Joseph C. Dunn in 1974, is a metric that captures cluster quality by measuring the ratio of the minimum between-cluster distance to the maximum within-cluster diameter. Higher values indicate well-separated and compact clusters, with better clustering quality.