방법 비교

	K-means 군집화	DBSCAN	주성분 분석
분야	머신러닝	머신러닝	머신러닝
계열	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
기원 연도	1967 (formalized 1982)	1996	2002
창시자	MacQueen, J. B.; Lloyd, S. P.	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X.	Jolliffe, I.T. (textbook); Pearson & Hotelling (origins)
유형	Partitional clustering	Density-based clustering algorithm	Unsupervised dimensionality reduction
원전	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129–137.	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.	Jolliffe, I.T. (2002). Principal Component Analysis (2nd ed.). Springer.
별칭	k-means clustering, Lloyd's algorithm, k-means partitioning, hard k-means	DBSCAN Kümeleme, density-based clustering, density-based spatial clustering	Temel Bileşenler Analizi (PCA), PCA, principal components analysis, Karhunen-Loève transform
관련	4	3	3
요약	K-means is a classic unsupervised partitional clustering algorithm that divides a dataset into K non-overlapping groups by iteratively assigning each observation to its nearest centroid and updating centroids as the mean of their assigned points. It is one of the most widely used exploratory tools in machine learning and data 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.	Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is an unsupervised dimensionality-reduction method — given its modern textbook treatment by Ian Jolliffe (2002) — that compresses high-dimensional data into fewer dimensions while preserving the maximum possible variance. It re-expresses correlated variables as a small set of uncorrelated principal components ordered by how much of the data's variation each one captures.