Compară metode

	Clustering K-means	Analiza Componentelor Principale	Pădurea Aleatoare (Random Forest)
Domeniu	Învățare automată	Învățare automată	Învățare automată
Familie	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
Anul apariției	1967 (formalized 1982)	2002	2001
Autorul original	MacQueen, J. B.; Lloyd, S. P.	Jolliffe, I.T. (textbook); Pearson & Hotelling (origins)	Breiman, L.
Tip	Partitional clustering	Unsupervised dimensionality reduction	Ensemble (bagging of decision trees)
Sursa seminală	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129–137.	Jolliffe, I.T. (2002). Principal Component Analysis (2nd ed.). Springer.	Breiman, L. (2001). Random Forests. Machine Learning, 45, 5–32.
Denumiri alternative	k-means clustering, Lloyd's algorithm, k-means partitioning, hard k-means	Temel Bileşenler Analizi (PCA), PCA, principal components analysis, Karhunen-Loève transform	Rastgele Orman (Random Forest), rastgele orman, random decision forest, bagged tree ensemble
Înrudite	4	3	4
Rezumat	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.	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.	Random Forest is an ensemble learning method, introduced by Leo Breiman in 2001, that grows many decision trees on bootstrap samples of the data and combines their votes to produce strong classification and regression. By pooling many slightly different trees, it produces more accurate and more stable predictions than any single tree.