en تخصصي Special كاربردي Applicable <p dir="RTL"></p> <p style="margin: 0px;">&lrm;In some fields&lrm;, &lrm;there is an interest in distinguishing different geometrical objects from each other&lrm;.</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">&lrm;A field of research that studies the objects from a statistical point of view&lrm;, &lrm;provided they are&lrm;</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">&lrm;invariant under translation&lrm;, &lrm;rotation and scaling effects&lrm;, &lrm;is known as the statistical shape analysis&lrm;.</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">&lrm;Having some objects that are registered using key points on the outline of the objects&lrm;, &lrm;the main purpose&lrm;</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">&lrm;of this paper is to compare two popular clustering procedures to cluster objects&lrm;. &lrm;We also use some indexes&lrm;</p> <p style="margin: 0px;">&lrm;to evaluate our clustering application&lrm;. &lrm;The proposed methods are applied <span style="background-color: rgb(246, 213, 217);">to</span>&nbsp;the real life data.</p> Shape‎, ‎Clustering‎, ‎K-means‎, ‎Model-based‎, ‎Landmark‎. 99 109 http://ijmsi.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-2680-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 M. Golalizadeh golalizadeh@modares.ac.ir 10031947532846006973 10031947532846006973 Yes Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University H. Jafari ‎hamed.jafari@modares.ac.ir 10031947532846006974 10031947532846006974 No Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University