A Method for Comparing Two Hierarchical Clusterings

Edward B. Fowlkes; C. L. Mallows

doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.1983.10478008

A Method for Comparing Two Hierarchical Clusterings

1983 · Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1,497 citations · 4 from inside this corpus

Edward B. Fowlkes low, C. L. Mallows low

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What this paper cites, inside the corpus

Paper	Year	Cited
Objective Criteria for the Evaluation of Clustering Methods	1971	5,969
Clustering Algorithms	1975	5,833
Cluster Analysis for Applications	1973	5,152

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Paper	Year	Cited
Comparing partitions	1985	7,952
dendextend: an R package for visualizing, adjusting and comparing trees of hierarchical c…	2015	1,968
Comparing clusterings—an information based distance	2006	1,589
A review of clustering techniques and developments	2017	1,369

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Advanced Clustering Algorithms Research	Computer Science
Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models	Computer Science
Data Management and Algorithms	Computer Science

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