{"id":1026,"date":"2025-07-24T11:39:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T16:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2026-02-10T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T07:52:10","slug":"clustering-subpopulations-using-the-k-means-algorithm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/clustering-subpopulations-using-the-k-means-algorithm\/","title":{"rendered":"Clustering subpopulations using the K-means algorithm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This post will explain how to classify individuals within a population into subpopulations using the K-means algorithm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Figure 1 shows the &#8220;K-means clustering&#8221; tab selected in QTLmax Super.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.qtlmax.com\/kr\/data\/editor\/2401\/thumb-k-means_1200x842.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Figure 1)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Figure 2 shows that a PCA result file has been selected, and that its PCA table is populated accordingly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.qtlmax.com\/kr\/data\/editor\/2401\/thumb-k-means2_1200x842.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Figure 2)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After you enter the project name and select the number of groups for the entire population in the K field, click the [Execute] button. You&#8217;ll then see the subpopulation class for each individual displayed as a number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/help.qtlmax.com\/kr\/data\/editor\/2401\/thumb-k-means3_1200x842.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Figure 3)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post will explain how to classify individuals within a population into subpopulations using the K-means algorithm. Figure 1 shows the &#8220;K-means clustering&#8221; tab selected in QTLmax Super. (Figure 1) Figure 2 shows that a PCA result file has been selected, and that its PCA table is populated accordingly. (Figure 2) After you enter the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/open.qtlmax.com\/guide\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}