เปรียบเทียบวิธี

	[NEEDS TRANSLATION]	การวิเคราะห์กลุ่ม (Cluster Analysis)
สาขาวิชา	สถิติศาสตร์	สถิติศาสตร์
ตระกูล	Latent structure	Latent structure
ปีกำเนิด	1950s–1968	1939–1967
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Paul F. Lazarsfeld	Robert C. Tryon (early development); Ward (1963) for hierarchical; MacQueen (1967) for k-means
ประเภท	Latent variable / person-centered classification	Unsupervised classification / grouping
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Goodman, L. A. (1974). Exploratory latent structure analysis using both identifiable and unidentifiable models. Biometrika, 61(2), 215–231.	Everitt, B. S., Landau, S., Leese, M. & Stahl, D. (2011). Cluster Analysis (5th ed.). Wiley. ISBN: 978-0470749913
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	LCA, latent class model, latent categorical analysis, finite mixture of multinomials	clustering, unsupervised classification, data clustering, numerical taxonomy
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	6	5
สรุป	Latent class analysis identifies unobserved subgroups — latent classes — within a population by finding patterns of responses across a set of categorical observed indicators. It is the categorical-variable counterpart of cluster analysis, but grounded in an explicit probabilistic model, and is widely used in social, health, and behavioral sciences to discover typologies in survey or diagnostic data.	Cluster analysis is a family of unsupervised multivariate techniques that partition a set of objects or observations into internally homogeneous, mutually distinct groups — clusters — based on measured characteristics, without any prior knowledge of group membership. It is widely used in market segmentation, bioinformatics, psychology, and social science to reveal natural groupings in data.