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Table 3 Metrics adopted for clustering evaluation

From: Clustering analysis of tumor metabolic networks

Name

Acronym

Computed as

Codomain

Better if

Rand’s Index

RI

\(\frac {TP+TN}{TP+FP+FN+TN}\)

[0,1]

↑

Adjusted Rand’s Index

ARI

\(\frac {RI-E[RI]}{\max (RI)-E[RI]}\)

[-1,1]

↑

Misclassification Rate

MR

\(\frac {FP+FN}{TP+FP+FN+TN}\)

[0,1]

↓

F-Measure

F1

\(\frac {2 Precision \cdot Recall}{Precision + Recall}\)

[0,1]

↑

Fowlkes-Mallows Index

FMI

\(\frac {TP}{\sqrt {(TP + FP)\cdot (TP+ FN)}}\)

[0,1]

↑

Cluster Accuracy

CA

\(\frac {1}{n} \sum _{i=1}^{c} \max ({CP}_{i}|{GT}_{i})\)

(0,1]

↑

Normalized Mutual Information

NMI

\(\frac {MI}{\sqrt {H(CP) H(GT)}}\)

[0,1]

↑

Adjusted Mutual Information

AMI

\(\frac {MI-E[MI]}{\sqrt {H(CP) H(GT)}-E[MI]}\)

[-1,1]

↑

  1. (For details on the adopted metrics, see Additional file 5)