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sklearn.metrics. davies_bouldin_score(X, labels)[source]

Computes the Davies-Bouldin score.

The score is defined as the ratio of within-cluster distances to between-cluster distances.

Read more in the User Guide.

Parameters: X : array-like, shape (n_samples, n_features) List of n_features-dimensional data points. Each row corresponds to a single data point. labels : array-like, shape (n_samples,) Predicted labels for each sample.
Returns: score: float The resulting Davies-Bouldin score.

References

[1] Davies, David L.; Bouldin, Donald W. (1979).“A Cluster Separation Measure”. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. PAMI-1 (2): 224-227