English Explanatory Dictionary

Sørensen-Dice coefficient

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A statistic used to gauge the similarity of two samples. It is equal to twice the number of elements common to both sets, divided by the sum of the number of elements in each set.

Word forms

Sørensen-Dice coefficient Sørensen–Dice coefficient Sørensen-Dice coefficients

Etymology

Developed independently by the botanists Thorvald Sørensen and Lee Raymond Dice in the 1940s.

Synonyms

Dice coefficient Dice's coefficient Sørensen-Dice index Sørensen index
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