Ranked Adjusted Rand: integrating distance and partition information in a measure of clustering agreement

BMC Bioinformatics

Table 4 Comparison of RAR with other measures applied to the small example of Figure 1.

	Clusterings compared
Clustering comparison measures [reference]	A-B	A-C	A-D
Rand [2]	0.92	0.92	0.92
HA [4]	0.77	0.77	0.77
Jaccard [5]	0.70	0.70	0.70
Wallace forward [6]	0.70	0.70	0.70
Wallace reverse [6]	1.00	1.00	1.00
Larsen forward [7]	0.95	0.95	0.95
Larsen reverse [7]	0.81	0.81	0.81
MH [8]	0.89	0.89	0.89
Variation of Information [8]	0.11	0.11	0.11
Van Dongen [9]	1.00	1.00	1.00
*RAR*	0.38	0.29	0.67

Coordinates of the points in the four clusterings (A, B, C and D) of Figure 1 were used to compute RAR and other 10 measures of clustering agreement.

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