방법 비교

	K-평균 군집화	계층적 군집화
분야	머신러닝	머신러닝
계열	Machine learning	Machine learning
기원 연도	1967	1963
창시자	MacQueen, J.	Ward, J. H.
유형	Partitional clustering (centroid-based)	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)
원전	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.	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.
별칭	K-Ortalamalar Kümeleme, k-ortalamalar kümeleme, k-means, centroid clustering	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering
관련	3	4
요약	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.	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.