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Machine Learning Algorithms
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Machine Learning Algorithms

by Giuseppe Bonaccorso
July 2017
Intermediate to advanced
360 pages
8h 26m
English
Packt Publishing
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Homogeneity 

An important requirement for a clustering algorithm (given the ground truth) is that each cluster should contain only samples belonging to a single class. In Chapter 2, Important Elements in Machine Learning, we have defined the concepts of entropy H(X) and conditional entropy H(X|Y), which measures the uncertainty of X given the knowledge of Y. Therefore, if the class set is denoted as C and the cluster set as K, H(C|K) is a measure of the uncertainty in determining the right class after having clustered the dataset. To have a homogeneity score, it's necessary to normalize this value considering the initial entropy of the class set H(C):

In scikit-learn, there's the built-in function homogeneity_score() that can be used to ...

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