R: Normalized information distance (NID)

NID {aricode} | R Documentation

## Normalized information distance (NID)

### Description

A function to compute the NID between two classifications

### Usage

    NID(c1, c2)

### Arguments

`c1` | a vector containing the labels of the first classification. Must be a vector of characters, integers, numerics, or a factor, but not a list.
`c2` | a vector containing the labels of the second classification.

### Value

a scalar with the normalized information distance .

### See Also

`RI`, `NMI`, `NVI`, `ARI`, `clustComp`

### Examples

    data(iris)
    cl <- cutree(hclust(dist(iris[,-5])), 4)
    NID(cl,iris$Species)

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