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Sørensen-Dice coefficient en · NOUN

Etymology

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

Meanings

  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.

Forms

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Sørensen-Dice coefficients Number=Plur lexicographic
Sørensen–Dice coefficient canonical lexicographic

Synonyms

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

wikipedia: Thorvald Sørensen · wikipedia: Lee R. Dice