How to evaluate the best algorithm preform clusters?

halaalrobassy

i have dataset and i want to cluster one feature to three clusters, i choose kmeans, kmedoid and xmean algorithms to preform this clustering then i want to evaluate which algorithm will perform better clustering. 
i put the three algorithms in loop parameter but i couldn't know where can i put the cluster distance performance operator  . i want to see the avg centroid and Davis bouldin measures for each model and according to them then choose the bset model will perform the best clustering . 

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Telcontar120

Just use the Cluster Distance Performance operator after each cluster method and it will give you the metrics you seek.
Of course, the value chosen for k for any of these will have a big impact on the cluster metrics.  Do you have an a priori value you are using?  Or do you need to do this evaluation over a range of different possible k-values (in which case you may want to build some loops and do some logging of results).
Additionally you should recall that K-means and X-means are actually the same algorithm, with x-means seeking for the "best" value of k automatically.  So they won't give you different metrics if the k-value is the same for both.

Telcontar120

There are no other major parameters for optimizing k-means other than the selection of k, so if you have that known in advance then I don't think there is really anything else for you to do.  The only other parameter is the distance measure, and that is something you also typically determine in advance which one is suitable for your use case rather than "optimizing" it.  If you have both numerical and nominal attributes you will be limited to Mixed Euclidean anyways.  
You should be sure to normalize your data before running any k-means or k-medoids!

Above I was referring to whether you already knew the number of clusters (k) you wanted to use.  If you already know k, then you also have no need for x-means since x-means is simply k-means searching across a range of possible k values, so I would drop that from your analysis.

halaalrobassy

thanks alot @Telcontar120

yes i have a pirior cluster number for column values.just i want to ask you what do you mean by doing some logging for the result. I also want to optimize the performance of the clustering, is it possible ,if yes can you tell me how , please .

halaalrobassy

thank you, your advices really helped me