# Log-Likelihood in EM Cluster

I am doing clustering in Weka for a school project. I am trying to compare two Weka outputs with log-likelihood:

Number of clusters selected by cross validation: 6


Number of iterations performed: 13

Clustered Instances

0 54 ( 26%) 1 39 ( 19%) 2 43 ( 21%) 3 20 ( 10%) 4 10 ( 5%) 5 39 ( 19%)

Log likelihood: -52.97762

I am trying to understand if a Log likelihood of-52.97762 is better than -15.671233. Or what's the best Expectation Maximization model if the log-likelihoods are -53, -16 and 10

• Rule #0 of statistical software is to apply it to datasets with known properties before you apply it to the data that concern you. That will help assure you that (a) the software works correctly and (b) you understand its output. In light of rule #0, consider applying Weka to a couple of related small datasets where you know, intuitively, which one is more clustered than the other. (Alternatively, apply it to published datasets with published analyses.) – whuber Jan 12 '18 at 15:31