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Glossary: Unsupervised Learning

silhouette

Also written: silhouette score, silhouette_score, silhouette_samples

How much closer a row is to its own cluster than to the nearest other cluster, from −1 to 1: near 1 is well placed, near 0 on a border, negative probably misplaced. Averaged over all rows, it helps compare values of k.

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