Properties of the Hubert-Arabie adjusted Rand index

Psychological Methods

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 386-396

  Steinley, Douglas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 4344611435     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.9.3.386     Document Type: Article

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