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	K-means-klustring	DBSCAN	Hierarkisk klustring
Ämnesområde	Maskininlärning	Maskininlärning	Maskininlärning
Familj	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
Ursprungsår	1967 (formalized 1982)	1996	1963
Upphovsperson	MacQueen, J. B.; Lloyd, S. P.	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X.	Ward, J. H.
Typ	Partitional clustering	Density-based clustering algorithm	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)
Ursprungskälla	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129–137.	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X. (1996). A Density-Based Algorithm for Discovering Clusters in Large Spatial Databases with Noise. Proceedings of the 2nd KDD, 226–231.	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.
Alias	k-means clustering, Lloyd's algorithm, k-means partitioning, hard k-means	DBSCAN Kümeleme, density-based clustering, density-based spatial clustering	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering
Närliggande	4	3	4
Sammanfattning	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.	DBSCAN is a density-based clustering algorithm, introduced by Ester, Kriegel, Sander and Xu in 1996, that groups together points lying in dense regions and flags points in sparse regions as noise. It is effective on noisy data and on clusters of irregular, non-spherical shapes.	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.