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	Índice Calinski-Harabasz	Índice de Davies-Bouldin	Inércia
Área	Avaliação de modelos	Avaliação de modelos	Avaliação de modelos
Família	MCDM	MCDM	MCDM
Ano de origem	1974	1979	1967
Autor original	Tadeusz Calinski, Jerzy Harabasz	David L. Davies, Donald W. Bouldin	Stuart Lloyd, James MacQueen
Tipo	Cluster quality metric	Cluster quality metric	Clustering quality metric
Fonte seminal	Calinski, T., & Harabasz, J. (1974). A dendrite method for cluster analysis. Communications in Statistics, 3(1), 1-27.	Davies, D. L., & Bouldin, D. W. (1979). A cluster separation measure. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 1(2), 224-227.	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129-137.
Outros nomes	variance ratio criterion, pseudo F-statistic, CH index	DBI, Davies Bouldin index	WCSS, within-cluster sum of squares, cluster cohesion
Relacionados	5	5	5
Resumo	The Calinski-Harabasz Index, also called the Variance Ratio Criterion, was introduced by Calinski and Harabasz in 1974. It is a metric that measures the ratio of between-cluster variance to within-cluster variance, adjusted for the number of clusters and data points. Higher values indicate better-separated, more compact clusters.	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.	Inertia, also called Within-Cluster Sum of Squares (WCSS), is a measure of cluster cohesion that quantifies how tightly points are grouped around their cluster centroids. Lower values indicate more compact, cohesive clusters. Inertia is the primary objective function for k-means clustering and has been a fundamental metric since the method's introduction.