TABLE 1.

Clustering algorithms used in diabetes studies

Hierarchical	Partitioning
Agglomerative 26 , 41	Hard clustering ‐ k‐means 41 ‐ k‐medoids (Partition around medoids—PAM) 52 ‐ Self‐organizing maps (SOM) 37 , 41 Soft clustering ‐ Fuzzy c‐mean 59