Compară metode

	Metoda cotului	Statistica Gap (Gap Statistic)
Domeniu	Evaluarea modelelor	Evaluarea modelelor
Familie	MCDM	MCDM
Anul apariției	1953	2001
Autorul original	Robert Thorndike	Robert Tibshirani, Guenther Walther, Trevor Hastie
Tip	Heuristic optimization criterion	Statistical criterion
Sursa seminală	Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R., & Friedman, J. (2009). The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction. Springer Series in Statistics.	Tibshirani, R., Walther, G., & Hastie, T. (2001). Estimating the number of clusters in a data set via the gap statistic. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 63(2), 411-423.
Denumiri alternative	elbow analysis, knee detection	gap index, Tibshirani gap statistic
Înrudite	5	5
Rezumat	The Elbow Method is a heuristic for selecting the optimal number of clusters in partitional clustering. Introduced by Robert Thorndike in 1953, it involves fitting clustering models for increasing numbers of clusters and plotting the within-cluster sum of squares (WCSS) against the number of clusters. The 'elbow' occurs where the rate of WCSS decrease sharply changes, suggesting an optimal cluster count.	The Gap Statistic, developed by Tibshirani, Walther, and Hastie in 2001, is a principled statistical method for determining the optimal number of clusters in a dataset. It compares the observed within-cluster sum of squares to the expected value under a null hypothesis of no clustering structure, providing a theoretically grounded approach to cluster number selection.