Meanings
plural Sørensen-Dice coefficients
- mathematicsA 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.
Synonyms: Dice coefficient, Dice's coefficient, Sørensen-Dice index, Sørensen index
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA 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.
Origin
Developed independently by the botanists Thorvald Sørensen and Lee Raymond Dice in the 1940s.
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