Metrics are functions that tell how much information would be
lost for a given reduction in the data. reduce. as_measure() is a
helper function to create new metrics to be used in partitioners.
partitioners can be created with as_partitioner().
measure_variance_explained() assesses information loss by calculating the
variance explained by the first component of a principal components analysis.
measure_variance_explained(.partition_step)a partition_step object
a partition_step object
Other metrics:
as_measure(),
measure_icc(),
measure_min_icc(),
measure_min_r2(),
measure_std_mutualinfo()