Questions tagged [jaccard-similarity]
Jaccard similarity (or jaccard coefficient) is a similarity function for computing the similarity between two sets
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distance metric for student course schedules
I'm doing an exploratory clustering analysis of student course schedules at a college. Interpretability by humans is paramount: we're trying to inform future research questions and possibly ...
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Jaccard Simialrity between different populations
I want to calculate Jaccard similarity (in R) between ten populations from two types of streams(contaminated and non-contaminated), five from each. I want to compare the similarity between these ...
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Set Similarity Measure that accounts for size
Suppose I have two sets, A and B where 10|A| = |B| and A is a subset of B. For the case where |A| = 1 the Jaccard similarity of the sets will be 0.1. For the case where |A| = 100 the Jaccard ...
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Jaccard Similarity with Binary Data
I have 5400 rows of data and 3211 columns of attributes.
The first 4 columns are ID/Name/ParentID/ObjectType - the rest of the 3207 columns are the attributes that are to be used for similarity ...
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Similarity between n >> 2 binary vectors
I have $n$ binary vectors $x_i, ..., x_n$ of length $d$. I wish to compute
a similarity measure between all $n$ of them. My initial thought was to use
the Jaccard Index, since each binary element $x_{...
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Jaccard Index for Binary Data in R using dist function
I have a presence/absence table of 0s and 1s and I would like to cluster this data. I want to create a pairwise matrix using R's dist function which has a binary ...
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jaccard distance if one samples is a subset
I have a very basic question but I cannot find an answer (especially for a clustering situation). I am trying to do hierarchical clustering of samples using jaccard distances. One sample contains ...
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Addressing “Unbalanced Features” or Feature Taxonomy for Nearest Neighbor / Similarity Calculations
The main question is how to address an imbalance in representation of feature "sets" when calculating similarity. I'll motivate with an example scenario:
Suppose we have objects described by a binary ...
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Can I use Manhattan distance on binary data for hierarchical clustering?
I understand that classically Jaccard and Hamming work best with binary data, but is there anything specifically wrong with using a Manhattan distance instead with the complete linkage function?
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Estimate Jaccard similarity based on a sample
The Jaccard similarity of two sets, $A$ and $B$, is defined as: $Jaccard(A,B)=\frac{A\cap{B}}{A\cup{B}}$.
Say that I only have a sample of $P\%$ of each of the sets: $A'$ and $B'$. What would be a ...
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Measure similar to Jaccard index but comparing more than two groups at a time
I am interested in looking at the amount of sharing between several samples (each represented as a vector of character strings), and to do pairwise comparisions, I have been using Jaccard indices. Is ...
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Calculating Jaccard similarity in R: all duo combinations for multiple groups and creating a matrix or cluster plotting with the index [closed]
I have been trying to compute Jaccard similarity index for all possible duo combinations for 7 communities and to create a matrix, or preferably Cluster plotting with the similarity index.
There are ...
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How do I calculate the Jaccard distance for normal distributions?
I'm trying to replicate the results in this paper. I'm stuck at this part: specifically,
calculate Jaccard intersection of pdata1 & pdata2
Is there some neat ...
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What is the significance of the Jaccard similarity score?
I understand how to calculate the jaccard similarity , but never quite understood the logic behind why are we calculating it. How does it show the similarity between two sets? What relation exactly ...
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Correlation of continuous-time series
I have two continuous time series of discrete events. The data from them are timestamps of occurences, e.g.
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Measuring simmilarity of observations (non numeric)
I have a dataset of format :
day,measurement1,measurement2
1,a,b
1,a,c
1,f,s
2,a,b
2,a,c
2,f,g
3,a,d
3,a,q
3,f,s
In this example day1 is more similar with day2 ...
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Calculating Similarity between two multiset
I need to find similarity between two multiset. For example,
$$A = \{a, a, b, c, d\}$$
$$B = \{a, b, b, d\}$$
I know that I can use Jaccard Index but it gives same weight for each element. As ...
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Dummy data clustering: OK to apply Euclidian distance hierarchical clustering on Jaccard similarity matrix?
I created dummy variables (binary data) from categorical variables where I want to partition N subjects into multiple classes by some clustering method. I created a Jaccard similarity index matrix for ...
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Similarity between bar plots (counts of categories)?
What are the best ways to compare (calculate similarity) between two bar plots? For example:
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Similarity measures for more than 2 variables
If I have two binary variables, I can determine the similarity of these variables quite easily with different similarity measures, e.g. with the Jaccard similarity measure:
$J = \frac{M_{11}}{M_{01} +...
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Interpretation of Jaccard similarity for binary networks
Given two undirected networks with the same amount of nodes defined by $A_{ij}^1$ and $A_{ij}^2$, we take the unique unordered pairs $(i, j)$. After sorting them, we then have two binary vectors $\vec{...
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How to statistically validate that one clustering technique is more effective than other on Binary data
Problem statement - Idea is to cluster students based on their assessment pattern and score.
Data = I have a data set that contains Binary data of students answers(Correct/incorrect) which i have ...
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How to form clusters when features are sets of string objects
I am building a movie recommender. But unlike common recommender from movielens data, features of my movies are sets like actor list, genre list, list of producers and writers etc.
I know I can use ...
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Detecting misclassified data points using distance matrix
I have a data set of around 65,000 items from a public database that have each been assigned to one of around 1,800 classes, but unfortunately I am aware that quite a few are misclassified. My goals ...
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Jaccard similarity coefficient vs. Point-wise mutual information coefficient
Can you explain the difference between the Jaccard similarity coefficient and the pointwise mutual information (PMI) measure? It would be great if you could add a few examples.
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Accuracy vs Jaccard for multiclass problem
TL;DR For a multiclass problem, is Jaccard score the same as accuracy?
Update March 29, 2019
The wrong implementation in scikit-learn is now fixed with pull request #13151. Hooray!
P.S. The lesson ...
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Threshold value for nodes similarity
I am working on an algorithm for community detection on complex systems, where those systems are modeled as graphs. To form community i need to find similarity between nodes.
I am using Jaccard ...
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Jaccard coefficient (0011 and 1100 most similar?)
I try to compare different binary objects, lets say:
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How to compare a Ranked List?
I have 50 products. For each product, I identify 3 related products (1 top related, 2 (partially related, least related)) using similarity measures. I want to compare the ranked list generated by my ...
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Jaccard similarity of sets with approximate element matching
Consider two sets like this:
A = {'hello', 'world'} and B = {'Hello', 'helo', 'goodbye'}.
I want to measure the similarity between these two sets. There are two levels to this problem:
Comparing ...
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NMDS from Jaccard and Bray-Curtis identical. Is that a bad thing?
The dataset is ecological (species abundance), where I am calculating distances between 51 sampling sites, based on abundances of 3200 species. The species abundance values go up to 2700, and the rest ...
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Jaccard distance vs Levenshtein distance for fuzzy matching
My data is similar to the following data, but far bigger and more complex.
Apple
Banana
Those fruits
Tomato
Cocumber
These vegetables
I would like to get the ...
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What are the difference between Dice, Jaccard, and overlap coefficients? [closed]
I come across three different statistical measures to compare two sets, in particular to segmentation on images (e.g., comparing the similarity between the ground truth and the segmented result).
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I want to find similarity for 20 organisms on 25 parameters? How to do this ? Any software is available for this? [closed]
How to find similarity for 20 organisms on 25 parameters? How to do this ? Any software available for this?
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Find similarity score between multiple items based on tags assigned to them
I am working for a client who is in e-commerce. They have thousands of offerings and each has its own set of tags. Now, they want to find similar designs dynamically based on the item selected by the ...
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Statistical Interpretation of Average Pairwise Similarity
I have assembled binary vectors (0/1 for all elements and equal weight and arranged in time order) that have been separated into different cohorts where a unique event of interest occurs. I have ...
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Similarity measures and document length
I have an application where I need to measure the similarity between the (TF-IDF?) representation of two documents: $\mathbf{a}$ and $\mathbf{b}$ while still taking the document length into account.
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Numerical Similarity Measures for Dirty Data
I need to compare two datasets to see if they are "similar" in terms of numerical similarity between given columns. The problem is, however, that I do not know the characteristics of the 2nd dataset. ...
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Significance Test for Jaccard Distance
I am looking for a significance test for the Jaccard Distance (JD).
As an example, I have two datasets as follows:
Baseline: $\left| A\bigcap B \right|=57;\ \left| A\bigcup B \right|=275\quad \...
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Is the Jaccard Index a function of the number of elements in a list?
I am trying to understand a research result. Imagine 10 different psychological questionnaires 1,2,3,...10 of different length (i.e. number of questions) that are all supposedly measuring the same ...
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Approach to find similarity between two different types of matrices
I'm using the movielens dataset to give recommendations to a user based on genre of the movies.
I have two matrices, one contains the genre the user likes. We are considering user3 for now
I also ...
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How to soften or mitigate vector similarity measure?
I would like to evaluate a similarity between two objects X and Y by comparing a neighbourhood in which they're located.
I construct two sets of nine concentric and equidistant circles with centers ...
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Selecting the number of hashes for minhash? Working with extremely sparse data and want more collisions
I'm attempting to use minhash to generate clusters and similarities, and I am primarily using ideas from these resources.
http://www2007.org/papers/paper570.pdf
https://chrisjmccormick.wordpress.com/...
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Similarity between sets with different size
is there a distance measure like jaccard for sets with different sizes?
For example A=['a','b','c'] and B=['a','d']
I would like to include the total intersection as well as the order.
The ...
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confusion matrix and Jaccard index computation in O(n) for cluster comparison
My problem:
I have two clustering (or partitions) of a set of numbers $\{1,...,n\}$, each with $k$ cluster (or subsets), that i have to compare and, to do that, i'd like to try some different indexes ...
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Apriori versus Jaccard Coeff for recommender-system
I developed a market basket program for a retailer. I used the pymining library association rules function. I assume this uses the Apriori algorithm. I got 340,000 rules for an input of 17,000 ...
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Jaccard similarity in R
I want to compare 2 vectors of length 43; they have values of 0 (not present) and 1 (present). I will refer to $M_{1,1}$ as situations in which both 1 are present, and $M_{1,0}$ and $M_{0,1}$ to ...
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should I count repeated items in jaccard similarity?
I have two lists: A and B where Size(A) = 4 and size(B) = 10. I would like to find the Jaccard similarity between these two lists.
Suppose A = {Tom, George, John, Jennifer} and B={Tom, Jessica, ...
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Cosine similarity between two types of user profiles
I have a movie dataset containing preference (ratings) of users on movies and also attributes of movies (genre, cast, director). I created two types of profiles for users based on the movie attributes ...
