Means and variances for a family of similarity indices used in cluster analysis

DOI10.1016/J.JSPI.2010.03.005MaRDI QIDQ984637zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ahmed N. Albatineh

Publication date 20 July 2010

Published in Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2010.03.005

zbMATH Keywords

cluster analysisclustering algorithmrand indexsimilarity indexmatching counts

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Monte Carlo methods (65C05)

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