방법 비교

	Davies-Bouldin Index	Gap Statistic
분야	모델 평가	모델 평가
계열	MCDM	MCDM
기원 연도	1979	2001
창시자	David L. Davies, Donald W. Bouldin	Robert Tibshirani, Guenther Walther, Trevor Hastie
유형	Cluster quality metric	Statistical criterion
원전	Davies, D. L., & Bouldin, D. W. (1979). A cluster separation measure. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1(2), 224-227.	Tibshirani, R., Walther, G., & Hastie, T. (2001). Estimating the number of clusters in a data set via the gap statistic. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 63(2), 411-423.
별칭	DBI, Davies Bouldin index	gap index, Tibshirani gap statistic
관련	5	5
요약	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 Gap Statistic, developed by Tibshirani, Walther, and Hastie in 2001, is a principled statistical method for determining the optimal number of clusters in a dataset. It compares the observed within-cluster sum of squares to the expected value under a null hypothesis of no clustering structure, providing a theoretically grounded approach to cluster number selection.