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Objective Criteria for the Evaluation of Clustering Methods
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Many intuitively appealing methods have been suggested for clustering data, however, interpretation of their results has been hindered by the lack of objective criteria. This article proposes several criteria which isolate specific aspects of the performance of a method, such as its retrieval of inherent structure, its sensitivity to resampling and the stability of its results in the light of new data. These criteria depend on a measure of similarity between two different clusterings of the same set of data; the measure essentially considers how each pair of data points is assigned in each clustering.
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- Authors
- Rand, W. M.
- Venue
- Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1971-12
- Volume
- 66
- Issue
- 336
- Pages
- 846-850
- ISSN
- 0162-1459 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-274X
- OpenAlex
- W2033403400
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- References
- 4
- FWCI
- 3.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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