# Different Categories of cluster validation:

  • external indices (you have labelled data)
  • internal indices
  • relative indices

Cluster results might be evaluated on :

  • compactness
  • separability

# External Indices

Intro

Adjusted Rand Index- formula

Adjusted Rand Index- comparision

Score range from -1 to 1

# Internal Indices

Internal Index Silhouette

In the below image, there are 3 clusters. The further we are from k=3, score decreases Silhouette- finding k

In the below image, we compare Silhouette score on the two ring dataset. We see that although Single Link and DBScan clustered it well, the score is really low Silhouette-  Commparision