Table 4

Comparison of RAR with other measures applied to the small example of Figure 1.

Clusterings compared


Clustering comparison measures [reference]

A-B

A-C

A-D


Rand [2]

0.92

0.92

0.92

HA [4]

0.77

0.77

0.77

Jaccard [5]

0.70

0.70

0.70

Wallace forward [6]

0.70

0.70

0.70

Wallace reverse [6]

1.00

1.00

1.00

Larsen forward [7]

0.95

0.95

0.95

Larsen reverse [7]

0.81

0.81

0.81

MH [8]

0.89

0.89

0.89

Variation of Information [8]

0.11

0.11

0.11

Van Dongen [9]

1.00

1.00

1.00

RAR

0.38

0.29

0.67


Coordinates of the points in the four clusterings (A, B, C and D) of Figure 1 were used to compute RAR and other 10 measures of clustering agreement.

Pinto et al. BMC Bioinformatics 2007 8:44   doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-44

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