Validity index for crisp and fuzzy clusters
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...Since the given data set can be partitioned in a number of ways, maintaining all of the aforementioned properties, a fitness function (some measure of the adequacy of the partitioning) must be defined....
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...proposed a validity index called the PBM index [37]....
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...And we must state that the Dataset_4_3, Dataset_5_2, Dataset_6_2 and Dataset_10_2 data sets are similar to data sets used in [3,37,38]....
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...index [295,296], root-mean-square standard deviation index [295,296], RS index [297], PBM index [300] and SV index [301]....
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...In this algorithm, a PBM index, which is commonly used for verifying the cluster validity [35], is employed to determine an appropriate number of clusters....
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...The criterion known as PBM [30] is also based on the within-group and between-group distances:...
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