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Properties of the Hubert-Arabie adjusted Rand index

Douglas Steinley1

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA. steinley@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu

Psychological Methods
|September 10, 2004
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