Cluster analysis

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Clustering or cluster analysis is a type of data analysis. The analyst groups objects so that objects in the same group (called a cluster) are more similar to each other than to objects in other groups (clusters) in some way. This is a common task in data mining.

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v t e Machine learning evaluation metrics
Regression	MSE MAE sMAPE MAPE MASE MSPE RMS RMSE/RMSD R² MDA MAD
Classification	F-score P4 Accuracy Precision Recall Kappa MCC AUC ROC Sensitivity and specificity Logarithmic Loss
Clustering	Silhouette Calinski-Harabasz Davies-Bouldin Dunn index Hopkins statistic Jaccard index Rand index Similarity measure SMC SimHash
Ranking	MRR DCG NDCG AP
Computer Vision	PSNR SSIM IoU
NLP	Perplexity BLEU
Deep Learning Related Metrics	Inception score FID
Recommender system	Coverage Intra-list Similarity
Similarity	Cosine similarity Euclidean distance Pearson correlation coefficient
Confusion matrix