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jaccard index

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.51 in modern English

Syllables
jac-card in-dex
IPA
32
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

Jaccard indexes (plural) Jaccard indices (plural)

Phrases

Jaccard distance

Frequently Paired Words

Jaccard distance

Synonyms

Jaccard coefficient

Questions

What does jaccard index mean?
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.
Where does jaccard index come from?
Developed by Swiss botanist Paul Jaccard (1868–1944), who gave it the French name coefficient de communauté.

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