השוואת שיטות

	מודל הבלוקים הסטוכסטי (SBM)	DBSCAN	אשכול היררכי
תחום	ניתוח רשתות	למידת מכונה	למידת מכונה
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Machine learning	Machine learning
שנת המקור	1983	1996	1963
הוגה השיטה	—	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X.	Ward, J. H.
סוג	Probabilistic generative graph model	Density-based clustering algorithm	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)
מקור מכונן	Holland, P.W., Laskey, K.B. & Leinhardt, S. (1983). Stochastic Blockmodels: First Steps. Social Networks, 5(2), 109-137.	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X. (1996). A Density-Based Algorithm for Discovering Clusters in Large Spatial Databases with Noise. Proceedings of the 2nd KDD, 226–231.	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.
כינויים	SBM, degree-corrected SBM, DCSBM, Stokastik Blok Modeli (SBM)	DBSCAN Kümeleme, density-based clustering, density-based spatial clustering	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering
קשורות	7	3	4
תקציר	The Stochastic Block Model (SBM), introduced by Holland, Laskey and Leinhardt (1983), is a probabilistic generative model for graphs that assigns nodes to latent blocks and parametrically estimates the connection probabilities between blocks. It is the foundational approach for community detection, core-periphery identification, and hierarchical structure discovery in network analysis.	DBSCAN is a density-based clustering algorithm, introduced by Ester, Kriegel, Sander and Xu in 1996, that groups together points lying in dense regions and flags points in sparse regions as noise. It is effective on noisy data and on clusters of irregular, non-spherical shapes.	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.