page_title: Cluster analysis
hierarchical_section_title: Cluster analysis
context_page_description: Clustering or cluster analysis is a type of data analysis. The analyst groups objects so that objects in the same group are more similar to each other than to objects in other groups in some way. This is a common task in data mining.
context_section_description: Clustering or cluster analysis is a type of data analysis. The analyst groups objects so that objects in the same group (called a cluster) are more similar to each other than to objects in other groups (clusters) in some way. This is a common task in data mining.
caption: Different results of cluster analysis on an artificial dataset (called "Mouse")