An Information-Theoretic External Cluster-Validity Measure

• Main Author: Dom, Byron E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 12.12.2012
• Subjects: Computer Science - Learning; Statistics - Machine Learning

In this paper we propose a measure of clustering quality or accuracy that is appropriate in situations where it is desirable to evaluate a clustering algorithm by somehow comparing the clusters it produces with ``ground truth' consisting of classes assigned to the patterns by manual means or so...