Journal
PATTERN RECOGNITION
Volume 47, Issue 9, Pages 3034-3045Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2014.03.017
Keywords
Clustering; k-Means; External validity; Similarity measure
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In clustering algorithm, one of the main challenges is to solve the global allocation of the clusters instead of just local tuning of the partition borders. Despite this, all external cluster validity indexes calculate only point-level differences of two partitions without any direct information about how similar their cluster-level structures are. In this paper, we introduce a cluster level index called centroid index. The measure is intuitive, simple to implement, fast to compute and applicable in case of model mismatch as well. To a certain extent, we expect it to generalize other clustering models beyond the centroid-based k-means as well. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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