Comparative analysis of K-Means and K-Medoids for clustering exam questions / Nurul Zafirah Mokhtar

Clustering has become more needed as a technique to cluster with intent to provide better grouping due to several problems. Clustering dynamic data is a challenge in identifying and forming groups. This unsupervised learning usually leads to undirected knowledge discovery. The cluster detection algo...

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Main Author: Mokhtar, Nurul Zafirah
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description Clustering has become more needed as a technique to cluster with intent to provide better grouping due to several problems. Clustering dynamic data is a challenge in identifying and forming groups. This unsupervised learning usually leads to undirected knowledge discovery. The cluster detection algorithm searches for clusters of data which are similar to one another by using similarity measures. Determining the suitable algorithm which can bring the optimized group clusters could be an issue. K-Means and k-Medoids are popular technique used in the world of clustering. Grouping an exam questions is a confusing tasks as it have to deal with the attributes and parameters of the data. Both techniques also may resulted in different outcomes. Depending on the parameters and attributes of the data, the results obtained from using both k-Means and k-Medoids could be varied. Each and every attribute and parameters selected undergo several process of data mining starting from pre-processing until the analysis of the data. The attributes and parameters that takes part in grouping the questions are marks, cognitive level and also the topics of the questions. Then the results is compared to determine which technique will produce higher accuracy results. This paper presents a comparative analysis of both algorithm in different data clusters to lay out strength and weaknesses of both. The grouping of an exam questions encompass low, medium and high level questions. Throughout the studies that conducted in determining the cluster, ITS570 course was used as a data and a set of cluster rules that hold the centroid and medoids value for both algorithm were produced at the end of this project for both techniques. The studies had found that k-Medoids produced higher accuracy result with 0.11% higher than k-Means. As a conclusion, with this type of data, k-Medoids algorithm had shown higher accuracy result rather than k-Means.
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spelling my.uitm.ir-558332024-05-24T07:41:15Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/55833/ Comparative analysis of K-Means and K-Medoids for clustering exam questions / Nurul Zafirah Mokhtar Mokhtar, Nurul Zafirah Analysis Electronic Computers. Computer Science Algorithms Clustering has become more needed as a technique to cluster with intent to provide better grouping due to several problems. Clustering dynamic data is a challenge in identifying and forming groups. This unsupervised learning usually leads to undirected knowledge discovery. The cluster detection algorithm searches for clusters of data which are similar to one another by using similarity measures. Determining the suitable algorithm which can bring the optimized group clusters could be an issue. K-Means and k-Medoids are popular technique used in the world of clustering. Grouping an exam questions is a confusing tasks as it have to deal with the attributes and parameters of the data. Both techniques also may resulted in different outcomes. Depending on the parameters and attributes of the data, the results obtained from using both k-Means and k-Medoids could be varied. Each and every attribute and parameters selected undergo several process of data mining starting from pre-processing until the analysis of the data. The attributes and parameters that takes part in grouping the questions are marks, cognitive level and also the topics of the questions. Then the results is compared to determine which technique will produce higher accuracy results. This paper presents a comparative analysis of both algorithm in different data clusters to lay out strength and weaknesses of both. The grouping of an exam questions encompass low, medium and high level questions. Throughout the studies that conducted in determining the cluster, ITS570 course was used as a data and a set of cluster rules that hold the centroid and medoids value for both algorithm were produced at the end of this project for both techniques. The studies had found that k-Medoids produced higher accuracy result with 0.11% higher than k-Means. As a conclusion, with this type of data, k-Medoids algorithm had shown higher accuracy result rather than k-Means. 2016 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/55833/1/55833.pdf Comparative analysis of K-Means and K-Medoids for clustering exam questions / Nurul Zafirah Mokhtar. (2016) Degree thesis, thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA Cawangan Melaka. <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/55833.pdf>
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Electronic Computers. Computer Science
Algorithms
Mokhtar, Nurul Zafirah
Comparative analysis of K-Means and K-Medoids for clustering exam questions / Nurul Zafirah Mokhtar
title Comparative analysis of K-Means and K-Medoids for clustering exam questions / Nurul Zafirah Mokhtar
title_full Comparative analysis of K-Means and K-Medoids for clustering exam questions / Nurul Zafirah Mokhtar
title_fullStr Comparative analysis of K-Means and K-Medoids for clustering exam questions / Nurul Zafirah Mokhtar
title_full_unstemmed Comparative analysis of K-Means and K-Medoids for clustering exam questions / Nurul Zafirah Mokhtar
title_short Comparative analysis of K-Means and K-Medoids for clustering exam questions / Nurul Zafirah Mokhtar
title_sort comparative analysis of k-means and k-medoids for clustering exam questions / nurul zafirah mokhtar
topic Analysis
Electronic Computers. Computer Science
Algorithms
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