BMC Bioinformatics

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Open Access Methodology article

Ranked Adjusted Rand: integrating distance and partition information in a measure of clustering agreement

Francisco R Pinto1,2*, João A Carriço1,2,3, Mário Ramirez1 and Jonas S Almeida2,4

Author Affiliations

1 Instituto de Microbiologia, Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa, Av. Professor Egas Moniz, 1649-028 Lisboa, Portugal

2 Grupo de Biomatemática, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, R. Quinta Grande, 6, 2780 Oeiras, Portugal

3 Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores: Investigação e Desenvolvimento (INESC-ID), R. Alves Redol 9, 1000-029 Lisboa, Portugal

4 Department of Biostatistics, and Applied Mathematics, Univ. Texas, MDAnderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA

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BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:44 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-44

Published: 7 February 2007

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Additional File 1:

Demonstration. Pdf file with demonstration of RAR and HA equivalence in the absence of intercluster distance infromation.

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Comparison of simulated large clusterings. Pdf file with methods, results and interpretation of the comparison of simulated large clusterings.

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Biological examples. Pdf file with biological examples of the use of RAR.

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MATLAB toolbox. Zip file with MATLAB functions to compute RAR and related measures.

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