期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON FUZZY SYSTEMS
卷 24, 期 6, 页码 1500-1512出版社
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TFUZZ.2016.2540063
关键词
Adjusted Rand index (ARI); C index; external cluster validity; fuzzy adjusted Rand index; fuzzy C index; fuzzy similarity relations; internal cluster validity
资金
- NICTA Victoria Research Laboratory
- ARC Discovery Grant [DE150100104]
- Australian Research Council [DE150100104] Funding Source: Australian Research Council
The C index is an internal cluster validity index that was introduced in 1970 as a way to define and identify a best crisp partition on n objects represented by either unlabeled feature vectors or dissimilarity matrix data. This index is often one of the better performers among the plethora of internal indices available for this task. This paper develops a soft generalization of the C index that can be used to evaluate sets of candidate partitions found by either fuzzy or probabilistic clustering algorithms. We define four generalizations based on relational transformations of the soft partition and, then, compare their performance to eight other popular internal fuzzy cluster indices using two methods of comparison (internal best-c and internal/ external (I/E) best match), six synthetic datasets, and six real-world labeled datasets. Our main conclusion is that the sum-min generalization is the second best performer in the best-c tests and the best performer in the I/E tests on small data.
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