Evaluation of Clustering Results
Evaluation of clustering results sometimes is referred to as cluster validation.
There have been several suggestions for a measure of similarity between two clusterings. Such a measure can be used to compare how well different data clustering algorithms perform on a set of data. These measures are usually tied to the type of criterion being considered in assessing the quality of a clustering method.
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