Similarity of Asymmetric Binary Attributes
Given two objects, A and B, each with n binary attributes, the Jaccard coefficient is a useful measure of the overlap that A and B share with their attributes. Each attribute of A and B can either be 0 or 1. The total number of each combination of attributes for both A and B are specified as follows:
- represents the total number of attributes where A and B both have a value of 1.
- represents the total number of attributes where the attribute of A is 0 and the attribute of B is 1.
- represents the total number of attributes where the attribute of A is 1 and the attribute of B is 0.
- represents the total number of attributes where A and B both have a value of 0.
Each attribute must fall into one of these four categories, meaning that
The Jaccard similarity coefficient, J, is given as
The Jaccard distance, J', is given as
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