variationOfInformation

variationOfInformation,Partition,Partition-method

Compute the variation of information 
$$H(P) + H(Q) - 2MI(P, Q)$$
where $MI$ is the mutual information, $H$ the partition entropy

Provides several measures ((dis)similarity, distance/metric,
correlation, entropy) for comparing two partitions of the same set of
objects. The different measures can be assigned to three different
classes: Pair comparison (containing the famous Jaccard and Rand
indices), set based, and information theory based.
Many of the implemented measures can be found in
Albatineh AN, Niewiadomska-Bugaj M and Mihalko D (2006)
<doi:10.1007/s00357-006-0017-z> and
Meila M (2007) <doi:10.1016/j.jmva.2006.11.013>.
Partitions are represented by vectors of class labels which allow a
straightforward integration with existing clustering algorithms
(e.g. kmeans()). The package is mostly based on the S4 object system.

Fabian Ball

partitionComparison

Implements Measures for the Comparison of Two Partitions

Andreas Geyer-Schulz

variationOfInformation function

<dl><dt>p</dt>
<dd>The partition $P$</dd>
<dt>q</dt>
<dd>The partition $Q$</dd></dl>

Arguments

<ul>
<li><code>p = Partition,q = Partition</code>: Compute given two partitions</li>
</ul>

Methods (by class)

Fabian Ball <a href="/link/fabian.ball%40kit.edu?package=partitionComparison&version=0.2.5" data-mini-rdoc="partitionComparison::fabian.ball@kit.edu">fabian.ball@kit.edu</a>

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