방법 비교

	계층적 군집화	DBSCAN	요인 분석
분야	머신러닝	머신러닝	연구 통계
계열	Machine learning	Machine learning	Process / pipeline
기원 연도	1963	1996	1931
창시자	Ward, J. H.	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X.	Louis Leon Thurstone
유형	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)	Density-based clustering algorithm	Method
원전	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.	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.	Thurstone, L. L. (1947). Multiple Factor Analysis. University of Chicago Press.
별칭	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering	DBSCAN Kümeleme, density-based clustering, density-based spatial clustering	EFA, CFA, latent variable modeling
관련	4	3	3
요약	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.	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.	Factor analysis is a statistical technique for identifying latent (unobserved) dimensions underlying observed variables, developed by Louis Leon Thurstone in the 1930s and formalized by Jöreskog (1969). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) discovers unknown factor structure from data; confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) tests hypothesized relationships between observed and latent variables. Essential in psychometrics (test development), organizational research (measuring constructs like leadership style), and biomedicine (identifying disease subtypes), factor analysis reduces dimensionality while revealing conceptual organization in multivariate data.