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Jaccard index

Jaccard index noun: a statistic for gauging the similarity and diversity of sample sets, based on the size of the intersection between the sets divided by the size of the union of the sets.

Noun

Jaccard index (plural Jaccard indexes or Jaccard indices)

  1. A statistic for gauging the similarity and diversity of sample sets, based on the size of the intersection between the sets divided by the size of the union of the sets.

Synonyms of Jaccard index

Forms of Jaccard index

pluralJaccard indexes
pluralJaccard indices

Origin of Jaccard index

Developed by Swiss botanist Paul Jaccard (1868–1944), who gave it the French name coefficient de communauté.

Questions about Jaccard index

What does Jaccard index mean?
Jaccard index means a statistic for gauging the similarity and diversity of sample sets, based on the size of the intersection between the sets divided by the size of the union of the sets.
What part of speech is Jaccard index?
Jaccard index is a noun.
What is the plural of Jaccard index?
The plural of Jaccard index is Jaccard indexes.

Words near Jaccard index in the dictionary

  1. Jaccard
  2. Jaccard coefficient
  3. Jaccard coefficients
  4. Jaccard distance
  5. Jaccard distances
  6. Jaccard index
  7. Jaccard indexes
  8. Jaccard indices
  9. jacchus
  10. jacchuses
  11. jacconet

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