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	K-means 군집화	계층적 군집화
분야	머신러닝	머신러닝
계열	Machine learning	Machine learning
기원 연도	1967 (formalized 1982)	1963
창시자	MacQueen, J. B.; Lloyd, S. P.	Ward, J. H.
유형	Partitional clustering	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)
원전	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129–137.	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.
별칭	k-means clustering, Lloyd's algorithm, k-means partitioning, hard k-means	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering
관련	4	4
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.	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.