pycrostates.metrics.calinski_harabasz_score

pycrostates.metrics.calinski_harabasz_score(cluster)

Compute the Calinski-Harabasz score.

This function computes the Calinski-Harabasz score[1] with sklearn.metrics.calinski_harabasz_score() from a fitted Clustering instance.

Parameters:

clusterCluster

Fitted clustering algorithm from which to compute score. For more details about current clustering implementations, check the Clustering section of the documentation.

Returns:

scorefloat

The resulting Calinski-Harabasz score.

Notes

For more details regarding the implementation, please refer to sklearn.metrics.calinski_harabasz_score().

References

[1]

T. Caliński and J. Harabasz. A dendrite method for cluster analysis. Communications in Statistics, 3(1):1–27, 1974. doi:10.1080/03610927408827101.

Examples using pycrostates.metrics.calinski_harabasz_score

Evaluating clustering fits

Evaluating clustering fits