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evaluate: Evaluate Clusterings

Description

Gets evaluation measures for micro or macro-clusters from a DSC object given the original DSD object.

Usage

evaluate(dsc, dsd, measure, n = 100, type=c("auto", "micro", "macro"),  assign="micro", assignmentMethod=c("auto", "model", "nn"),  noise = c("class", "exclude"), ...)
evaluate_cluster(dsc, dsd, measure, n = 1000, type=c("auto", "micro", "macro"),  assign="micro", assignmentMethod=c("auto", "model", "nn"), horizon=100, verbose=FALSE, noise = c("class", "exclude"), ...)

Arguments

dsc
The DSC object that the evaluation measure is being requested from.
dsd
The DSD object that holds the initial training data for the DSC.
measure
Evaluation measure(s) to use. If missing then all available measures are returned.
n
The number of data points being requested.
type
Use micro- or macro-clusters for evaluation. Auto used the class of dsc to decide.
assign
Assign points to micro or macro-clusters?
assignmentMethod
How are points assigned to clusters for evaluation (see get_assignment)?
horizon
Evaluation is done using horizon many previous points (see detail section).
verbose
report progress?
noise
how to handle noise points in the data. Options are to treat as a separate class (default) or to exclude them from evaluation.
...
Unused arguments are ignored.

Value

evaluate returns an object of class stream_eval which is a numeric vector of the values of the requested measures and two attributes, "type" and "assign", to see at what level the evaluation was done.

Details

For evaluation each data points are assigned to its nearest cluster using Euclidean distance to the cluster centers. Then for each cluster the majority class is determined. Based on the majority class several evaluation measures can be computed. For evaluate_cluster the most commonly used method of prequential error estimation (see Gama, Sebastiao and Rodrigues; 2013). The data points in the horizon are first used to calculate the evaluation measire and then they are used for updating the cluster model. Many evaluation measures are calculated with code from the packages cluster, clue and fpc. Detailed documentation can be found in these packages (see Section See Also.) The following information items are available:
  • "numMicroClusters" number of micro-clusters
  • "numMacroClusters" number of macro-clusters
  • "numClasses" number of classes

The following noise-related items are available:

  • "noisePredicted" Number data points predicted as noise
  • "noiseActual" Number of data points which are actually noise
  • "noisePrecision" Precision of the predicting noise (i.e., number of correctly predicted noise points over the total number of points predicted as noise)

The following internal evaluation measures are available:

  • "SSQ" within cluster sum of squares. Assigns each non-noise point to its nearest center from the clustering and calculates the sum of squares
  • "silhouette" average silhouette width (actual noise points which stay unassigned by the clustering algorithm are removed; regular points that are unassigned by the clustering algorithm will form their own noise cluster) (cluster)
  • "average.between" average distance between clusters (fpc)
  • "average.within" average distance within clusters (fpc)
  • "max.diameter" maximum cluster diameter (fpc)
  • "min.separation" minimum cluster separation (fpc)
  • "ave.within.cluster.ss" a generalization of the within clusters sum of squares (half the sum of the within cluster squared dissimilarities divided by the cluster size) (fpc)
  • "g2" Goodman and Kruskal's Gamma coefficient (fpc)
  • "pearsongamma" correlation between distances and a 0-1-vector where 0 means same cluster, 1 means different clusters (fpc)
  • "dunn" Dunn index (minimum separation / maximum diameter) (fpc)
  • "dunn2" minimum average dissimilarity between two cluster / maximum average within cluster dissimilarity (fpc)
  • "entropy" entropy of the distribution of cluster memberships (fpc)
  • "wb.ratio" average.within/average.between (fpc)

The following external evaluation measures are available:

  • "precision", "recall", "F1" F1. A true positive (TP) decision assigns two points in the same true cluster also to the same cluster, a true negative (TN) decision assigns two points from two different true clusters to two different clusters. A false positive (FP) decision assigns two points from the same true cluster to two different clusters. A false negative (FN) decision assigns two points from the same true cluster to different clusters.

precision = TP/(TP+FP) recall = TP/(TP+FN)

The F1 measure is the harmonic mean of precision and recall.

  • "purity" Average purity of clusters. The purity of each cluster is the proportion of the points of the majority true group assigned to it (see Cao et al. (2006))

  • "Euclidean" Euclidean dissimilarity of the memberships (see Dimitriadou, Weingessel and Hornik (2002)) (clue)
  • "Manhattan" Manhattan dissimilarity of the memberships (clue)
  • "Rand" Rand index (see Rand (1971)) (clue)
  • "cRand" Adjusted Rand index (see Hubert and Arabie (1985)) (clue)
  • "NMI" Normalized Mutual Information (see Strehl and Ghosh (2002)) (clue)
  • "KP" Katz-Powell index (see Katz and Powell (1953)) (clue)
  • "angle" maximal cosine of the angle between the agreements (clue)
  • "diag" maximal co-classification rate (clue)
  • "FM" Fowlkes and Mallows's index (see Fowlkes and Mallows (1983)) (clue)
  • "Jaccard" Jaccard index (clue)
  • "PS" Prediction Strength (see Tibshirani and Walter (2005)) (clue)
  • "vi" variation of information (VI) index (fpc)

    • Many measures are the average over all clusters. For example, purity is the average purity over all clusters.

    For DSC_Micro objects, data points are assigned to micro-clusters and then each micro-cluster is evaluated. For DSC_Macro objects, data points by default (assign="micro") also assigned to micro-clusters, but these assignments are translated to macro-clusters. The evaluation is here done for macro-clusters. This is important when macro-clustering is done with algorithms which do not create spherical clusters (e.g, hierarchical clustering with single-linkage or DBSCAN) and this assignment to the macro-clusters directly (i.e., their center) does not make sense.

    Using type and assign, the user can select how to assign data points and ad what level (micro or macro) to evaluate.

    Many of the above measures are implemented package clue in function cl_agreement().

    evaluate_cluster() is used to evaluate an evolving data stream using the method described by Wan et al. (2009). Of the n data points horizon many points are clustered and then the evaluation measure is calculated on the same data points. The idea is to find out if the clustering algorithm was able to adapt to the changing stream.

    References

    Joao Gama, Raquel Sebastiao, Pedro Pereira Rodrigues (2013). On evaluating stream learning algorithms. Machine Learning, March 2013, Volume 90, Issue 3, pp 317-346.

    F. Cao, M. Ester, W. Qian, A. Zhou (2006). Density-Based Clustering over an Evolving Data Stream with Noise. Proceeding of the 2006 SIAM Conference on Data Mining, 326-337. E. Dimitriadou, A. Weingessel and K. Hornik (2002). A combination scheme for fuzzy clustering. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 16, 901-912.

    E. B. Fowlkes and C. L. Mallows (1983). A method for comparing two hierarchical clusterings. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 78, 553-569.

    L. Hubert and P. Arabie (1985). Comparing partitions. Journal of Classification, 2, 193-218.

    W. M. Rand (1971). Objective criteria for the evaluation of clustering methods. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 66, 846-850.

    L. Katz and J. H. Powell (1953). A proposed index of the conformity of one sociometric measurement to another. Psychometrika, 18, 249-256.

    A. Strehl and J. Ghosh (2002). Cluster ensembles - A knowledge reuse framework for combining multiple partitions. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 3, 583-617.

    R. Tibshirani and G. Walter (2005). Cluster validation by Prediction Strength. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 14/3, 511-528.

    L Wan, W.K. Ng, X.H. Dang, P.S. Yu and K. Zhang (2009). Density-Based Clustering of Data Streams at Multiple Resolutions, 3(3).

    See Also

    animate_cluster, cl_agreement in clue, cluster.stats in fpc, silhouette in cluster.

    Examples

    Run this code
    stream <- DSD_Gaussians(k=3, d=2)

dstream <- DSC_DStream(gridsize=0.05, Cm=1.5)
update(dstream, stream, 500)
plot(dstream, stream)
# Evaluate micro-clusters 
# Note: we use here only n=500 points for evaluation to speed up execution
evaluate(dstream, stream, measure=c("numMicro","numMacro","purity","crand", "SSQ"), 
  n=100)

# DStream also provides macro clusters. Evaluate macro clusters with type="macro"
plot(dstream, stream, type="macro")
evaluate(dstream, stream, type ="macro", 
  measure=c("numMicro","numMacro","purity","crand", "SSQ"), n=100)

# Points are by default assigned to the closest micro clusters for evalution. 
# However, points can also be assigned to the closest macro-cluster using
# assign="macro".
evaluate(dstream, stream, type ="macro", assign="macro",
  measure=c("numMicro","numMacro","purity","crand", "SSQ"), n=100)

# Evaluate an evolving data stream
stream <- DSD_Benchmark(1)
dstream <- DSC_DStream(gridsize=0.05, lambda=0.1)
evaluate_cluster(dstream, stream, type="macro", assign="micro",
  measure=c("numMicro","numMacro","purity","crand"), 
  n=600, horizon=100)

## Not run: 
# # animate the clustering process
# reset_stream(stream)
# dstream <- DSC_DStream(gridsize=0.05, lambda=0.1)
# animate_cluster(dstream, stream, horizon=100, n=5000,  
#   measure=c("crand"), type="macro", assign="micro",
#   plot.args = list(type="both", xlim=c(0,1), ylim=c(0,1)))
# ## End(Not run)

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