Silhouettes

Rousseeuw, P. J. (1987). Silhouettes: a Graphical Aid to the Interpretation and Validation of Cluster Analysis.

Type

Unclassified

Intellectual base

Unclassified

Year

1987

DOI

10.1016/0377-0427(87)90125-7

Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/0377-0427(87)90125-7

Cited by

1 citation across 1 artifact.

Domain-specific

• Silhouette (clustering)
  • For observation i, silhouette s(i)=(b(i)−a(i))/max{a(i),b(i)}, where a is mean dissimilarity within its assigned cluster and b is the best neighboring-cluster mean, producing values from −1 to 1.

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