เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	แบบจำลองส่วนผสมแบบเกาส์เซียน	DBSCAN	การจัดกลุ่มแบบลำดับชั้น
สาขาวิชา	การเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง	การเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง	การเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง
ตระกูล	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
ปีกำเนิด	1977	1996	1963
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Dempster, Laird & Rubin (EM algorithm)	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X.	Ward, J. H.
ประเภท	Probabilistic (soft) clustering — mixture model	Density-based clustering algorithm	Unsupervised clustering (agglomerative)
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Dempster, A.P., Laird, N.M. & Rubin, D.B. (1977). Maximum Likelihood from Incomplete Data via the EM Algorithm. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B, 39(1), 1–22.	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.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	Gaussian Karışım Modeli (GMM Kümeleme), GMM, GMM clustering, mixture of Gaussians	DBSCAN Kümeleme, density-based clustering, density-based spatial clustering	Hiyerarşik Kümeleme, hiyerarşik kümeleme, agglomerative clustering, hierarchical agglomerative clustering
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	4	3	4
สรุป	A Gaussian Mixture Model is a probabilistic clustering method that models the data as a weighted mixture of several Gaussian distributions, fitted with the Expectation–Maximization algorithm formalized by Dempster, Laird & Rubin in 1977. It is a generalization of K-means in which each cluster can take its own shape, size, and orientation.	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.