mutualInformation: Mutual Information

In partitionComparison: Implements Measures for the Comparison of Two Partitions

Mutual Information

Description

Compute the mutual information

\sum_{C \in P} \sum_{D \in Q} {\frac{|C \cap D|}{n} \log n\frac{|C \cap D|}{|C| |D|}}

Usage

mutualInformation(p, q)

## S4 method for signature 'Partition,Partition'
mutualInformation(p, q)

Arguments

p	The partition P
q	The partition Q

Methods (by class)

• mutualInformation(p = Partition, q = Partition): Compute given two partitions

Author(s)

Fabian Ball [e-mail]

References

\insertRef

Vinh2010partitionComparison

See Also

normalizedMutualInformation

Examples

isTRUE(all.equal(mutualInformation(new("Partition", c(0, 0, 0, 1, 1)), 
                 new("Partition", c(0, 0, 1, 1, 1))), 4/5*log(5/3) + 1/5*log(5/9)))

partitionComparison documentation built on Aug. 24, 2023, 1:06 a.m.