partitionComparison

CRANpartitionComparisonMaRDI QIDQ146495

Implements Measures for the Comparison of Two Partitions

Fabian Ball

Last update: 23 August 2023

Copyright license: MIT license, File License

Software version identifier: 0.2.5, 0.2.2, 0.2.3, 0.2.4, 0.2.6

Description

Provides several measures ((dis)similarity, distance/metric, correlation, entropy) for comparing two partitions of the same set of objects. The different measures can be assigned to three different classes: Pair comparison (containing the famous Jaccard and Rand indices), set based, and information theory based. Many of the implemented measures can be found in Albatineh AN, Niewiadomska-Bugaj M and Mihalko D (2006) <doi:10.1007/s00357-006-0017-z> and Meila M (2007) <doi:10.1016/j.jmva.2006.11.013>. Partitions are represented by vectors of class labels which allow a straightforward integration with existing clustering algorithms (e.g. kmeans()). The package is mostly based on the S4 object system.

Cites work

• On Similarity Indices and Correction for Chance Agreement
• Comparing clusterings—an information based distance

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