MCDMExternal Clustering Validation
Fowlkes-Mallows Index
The Fowlkes-Mallows Index, introduced by Fowlkes and Mallows in 1983, is an external clustering evaluation metric based on the geometric mean of precision and recall. It measures agreement between two partitions by examining pairs of points and how they are grouped in both the predicted and ground truth clusterings. Values range from 0 to 1, with 1 indicating perfect agreement.
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- Fowlkes, E. B., & Mallows, C. L. (1983). A method for comparing two hierarchical clusterings. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 78(383), 553-569. DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1983.10478008 ↗