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cluster_similarity {clusteval} | R Documentation

## Computes the similarity between two clusterings of the same data set.

### Description

For two clusterings of the same data set, this function calculates the similarity statistic specified of the clusterings from the comemberships of the observations. Basically, the comembership is defined as the pairs of observations that are clustered together.

### Usage

      cluster_similarity(labels1, labels2,
        similarity = c("jaccard", "rand"),
        method = "independence")

### Arguments

`labels1` | a vector of `n` clustering labels
`labels2` | a vector of `n` clustering labels
`similarity` | the similarity statistic to calculate
`method` | the model under which the statistic was derived

### Details

To calculate the similarity, we compute the 2x2 contingency table, consisting of the following four cells:

n_11

  the number of observation pairs where both observations are comembers in both clusterings

n_10

  the number of observation pairs where the observations are comembers in the first clustering but not the second

n_01

  the number of observation pairs where the observations are comembers in the second clustering but not the first

n_00

  the number of observation pairs where neither pair are comembers in either clustering

Currently, we have implemented the following similarity statistics:

- Rand index

- Jaccard coefficient

To compute the contingency table, we use the `comembership_table` function.

### Value

the similarity between the two clusterings

### Examples

    # Notice that the number of comemberships is 'n choose 2'.
    iris_kmeans <- kmeans(iris[, -5], centers = 3)$cluster
    iris_hclust <- cutree(hclust(dist(iris[, -5])), k = 3)
    cluster_similarity(iris_kmeans, iris_hclust)

[Package clusteval version 0.1 Index]