Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Jaccard index

The Jaccard index, also known as the Jaccard similarity coefficient (originally coined coefficient de communauté by Paul Jaccard), is a statistic used for comparing the similarity and diversity of sample sets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaccard_index

The Jaccard coefficient measures similarity between sample sets, and is defined as the size of the intersection divided by the size of the union of the sample sets:

 J(A,B) = {{|A \cap B|}\over{|A \cup B|}}.

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