KMeans - Cluster 3.0 for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Unix
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“Since the initial cluster assignment is random, different runs of the k-means clustering algorithm may not give the same final clustering solution. To deal with this, the k-means clustering algorithms is repeated many times, each time starting from a different initial clustering. The sum of distances within the clusters is used to compare different clustering solutions. The clustering solution with the smallest sum of within-cluster distances is saved.
It should be noted that generally, the k-means clustering algorithm finds a clustering solution with a smaller within-cluster sum of distances than the hierarchical clustering techniques.
The parameters that control k-means clustering are the number of clusters (k) and the number of trials.”
Un peu de théorie sur l’algo de clustering k-means.