English Explanatory Dictionary

Jaccard index

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.

Word forms

Jaccard index Jaccard indexes Jaccard indices

Etymology

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

Synonyms

Jaccard coefficient

Related words

Jaccard distance
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