A new perspective of modified partition coefficient
We begin by showing that the modified partition coefficient (MPC) is an average Euclidean distance between membership degrees and the centre of the fuzzy c-partition. Subsequently, we construct alternative MPCs using several other measures of dissimilarity and examine how differently they perform wh...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10071/10584 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/10584 |
| Summary: | We begin by showing that the modified partition coefficient (MPC) is an average Euclidean distance between membership degrees and the centre of the fuzzy c-partition. Subsequently, we construct alternative MPCs using several other measures of dissimilarity and examine how differently they perform when compared with the original proposal. Empirical evidence shows that the MPC based on a Chernoff's measure of divergence is more robust to the initial conditions of the fuzzy c-means algorithm. |
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