השוואת שיטות

	אשכול K-Means	אשכול היררכי
תחום	למידת מכונה	למידת מכונה
משפחה	Machine learning	Machine learning
שנת המקור	1967	1963
הוגה השיטה	MacQueen, J.	Ward, J. H.
סוג	Partitional clustering (centroid-based)	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)
מקור מכונן	MacQueen, J. (1967). Some Methods for Classification and Analysis of Multivariate Observations. Proceedings of the 5th Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability, 1, 281–297.	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.
כינויים	K-Ortalamalar Kümeleme, k-ortalamalar kümeleme, k-means, centroid clustering	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering
קשורות	3	4
תקציר	K-Means Clustering is a centroid-based partitional clustering algorithm, traced to J. MacQueen in 1967, that splits data into k clusters by assigning each observation to its nearest cluster centre. It is widely used for marketing segmentation, customer grouping, and exploratory analysis.	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.