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	K-means-klustring	Hierarkisk klustring	Analys av huvudkomponenter
Ämnesområde	Maskininlärning	Maskininlärning	Maskininlärning
Familj	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
Ursprungsår	1967 (formalized 1982)	1963	2002
Upphovsperson	MacQueen, J. B.; Lloyd, S. P.	Ward, J. H.	Jolliffe, I.T. (textbook); Pearson & Hotelling (origins)
Typ	Partitional clustering	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)	Unsupervised dimensionality reduction
Ursprungskälla	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129–137.	Ward, J. H. (1963). Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 58(301), 236–244.	Jolliffe, I.T. (2002). Principal Component Analysis (2nd ed.). Springer.
Alias	k-means clustering, Lloyd's algorithm, k-means partitioning, hard k-means	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering	Temel Bileşenler Analizi (PCA), PCA, principal components analysis, Karhunen-Loève transform
Närliggande	4	4	3
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.	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.	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.