手法を比較

	決定木	階層的クラスタリング	K平均法クラスタリング
分野	機械学習	機械学習	機械学習
系統	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
提唱年	1984	1963	1967
提唱者	Breiman, Friedman, Olshen & Stone	Ward, J. H.	MacQueen, J.
種類	Recursive partitioning (if-then rules)	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)	Partitional clustering (centroid-based)
原典	Breiman, L., Friedman, J.H., Olshen, R.A. & Stone, C.J. (1984). Classification and Regression Trees. Wadsworth.	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.	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.
別名	Karar Ağacı (Decision Tree), karar ağacı, classification tree, regression tree	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering	K-Ortalamalar Kümeleme, k-ortalamalar kümeleme, k-means, centroid clustering
関連	5	4	3
概要	A Decision Tree is an interpretable classification and regression method, formalised by Breiman, Friedman, Olshen and Stone in their 1984 CART framework, that partitions the data with hierarchical if-then rules. Each split sends observations down one branch or another until a prediction is read off the leaf.	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.	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.