G. C. Livingston

On the Use of Relative Validity Indices for Comparing Clustering Approaches

2025 · ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data

Relative Validity Indices (RVIs) such as the Silhouette Width Criterion, Calinski–Harabasz and Davies-Bouldin indices are the most widely used tools for evaluating and optimising clustering outcomes. Traditionally, their ability to rank collections of candidate dataset …