In a review by Shindler, which includes many types of clustering algorithms, the method is said to successfully overcome some of the problems associated with other ways of defining initial cluster-centres for k-means clustering.
U pregledu, koji uključuje mnoge vrste algoritama grupisanja, ovaj metod je uspešno prevazišao neke od problema u vezi sa drugim načinima definisanja početnih centara klastera za k-means clustering.