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sørensen-dice coefficient

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.95 in modern English

Syllables
sørensen-dice -co-ef-fi-cient
IPA
35
Scrabble Score
23
Letters
6
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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.

Etymology

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

Inflected Forms

Sørensen–Dice coefficient (canonical) Sørensen-Dice coefficients (plural)

Synonyms

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

Questions

What does sørensen-dice coefficient mean?
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.
Where does sørensen-dice coefficient come from?
Developed independently by the botanists Thorvald Sørensen and Lee Raymond Dice in the 1940s.

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