Jaccard index

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The Jaccard index is a statistic used for gauging the similarity and diversity of sample sets. It is defined in general taking the ratio of two sizes (areas or volumes), the intersection size divided by the union size, also called intersection over union (IoU). The concept was first introduced by Grove Karl Gilbert in 1884 as the “ratio of verification” in contexts of geological prediction evaluation. and now is often called the critical success index in meteorology. It was later developed independently by Paul Jaccard, originally giving the French name coefficient de communauté (coefficient of community), and independently formulated again by Taffee Tadashi Tanimoto. Thus, it is also called Tanimoto index or Tanimoto coefficient in some fields.

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