April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
532 pages
12h 39m
English
Since clustering can be thought of as unsupervised classification, if we have some form of labeled (or partially labeled) data available, we could use these labels to evaluate a clustering model. We can make predictions of clusters (that is, the class labels) using the model and evaluate the predictions against the true labels using metrics similar to some that we saw for classification evaluation (that is, based on true positive and negative and false positive and negative rates).
These include the Rand measure, F-measure, Jaccard index, and others.
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