เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	ความเฉื่อย	ดัชนี Calinski-Harabasz	วิธีข้อศอก
สาขาวิชา	การประเมินแบบจำลอง	การประเมินแบบจำลอง	การประเมินแบบจำลอง
ตระกูล	MCDM	MCDM	MCDM
ปีกำเนิด	1967	1974	1953
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Stuart Lloyd, James MacQueen	Tadeusz Calinski, Jerzy Harabasz	Robert Thorndike
ประเภท	Clustering quality metric	Cluster quality metric	Heuristic optimization criterion
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Lloyd, S. P. (1982). Least squares quantization in PCM. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 28(2), 129-137.	Calinski, T., & Harabasz, J. (1974). A dendrite method for cluster analysis. Communications in Statistics, 3(1), 1-27.	Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R., & Friedman, J. (2009). The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction. Springer Series in Statistics.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	WCSS, within-cluster sum of squares, cluster cohesion	variance ratio criterion, pseudo F-statistic, CH index	elbow analysis, knee detection
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	5	5	5
สรุป	Inertia, also called Within-Cluster Sum of Squares (WCSS), is a measure of cluster cohesion that quantifies how tightly points are grouped around their cluster centroids. Lower values indicate more compact, cohesive clusters. Inertia is the primary objective function for k-means clustering and has been a fundamental metric since the method's introduction.	The Calinski-Harabasz Index, also called the Variance Ratio Criterion, was introduced by Calinski and Harabasz in 1974. It is a metric that measures the ratio of between-cluster variance to within-cluster variance, adjusted for the number of clusters and data points. Higher values indicate better-separated, more compact clusters.	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.