השוואת שיטות

	אינרציה	מדד קלינסקי-הרבאז	מדד דאן
תחום	הערכת מודלים	הערכת מודלים	הערכת מודלים
משפחה	MCDM	MCDM	MCDM
שנת המקור	1967	1974	1974
הוגה השיטה	Stuart Lloyd, James MacQueen	Tadeusz Calinski, Jerzy Harabasz	Joseph C. Dunn
סוג	Clustering quality metric	Cluster quality metric	Cluster quality metric
מקור מכונן	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129-137.	Calinski, T., & Harabasz, J. (1974). A dendrite method for cluster analysis. Communications in Statistics, 3(1), 1-27.	Dunn, J. C. (1974). Well-separated clusters and optimal fuzzy partitions. Journal of Cybernetics, 4(1), 95-104.
כינויים	WCSS, within-cluster sum of squares, cluster cohesion	variance ratio criterion, pseudo F-statistic, CH index	Dunn's index, separation coefficient
קשורות	5	5	5
תקציר	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 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 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.