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International Conference on Interdisciplinary Mathematical and Statistical Techniques - IMST 2008 / FIM XVI
May 16-18, 2008
University of Memphis
Memphis, TN, USA

Organizers
Sat Gupta, M.L. Aggarawal, James Jamison

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Some Results for a Class of Similarity Indices Used in Cluster Analysis
by
Ahmed N. Albatineh
Nova Southeastern University

Albatineh et al. (2006) defined a family of similarity indices L which are linear functions of the matching counts matrix [mij] resulting from clustering the same data using two clustering algorithms, where mij is the number of common elements between the ith cluster of method A and jth cluster of method B. This paper provides a derivation of the mean and variance of any member of the family L of similarity indices under fixed marginal totals of the matching counts matrix and independence of the clustering algorithms. Therefore, this paper generalizes the derivation of Fowlks and Mallows (1983) for Rand (1971) measure and a measure they called Bk, which is actually attributed to Ochiai (1957). Simulations using Bivariate Normal Distribution are presented for comparisons under different settings.

Date received: January 31, 2008

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