3 papers
cs.SI2024
Mutual information and the encoding of contingency tables
Maximilian Jerdee, Alec Kirkley, M. E. J. Newman
Mutual information is commonly used as a measure of similarity between competing labelings of a given set of objects, for example to quantify performance in classification and comm…
physics.soc-ph2023
Luck, skill, and depth of competition in games and social hierarchies
Maximilian Jerdee, M. E. J. Newman
Patterns of wins and losses in pairwise contests, such as occur in sports and games, consumer research and paired comparison studies, and human and animal social hierarchies, are c…
cs.SI2023
Normalized mutual information is a biased measure for classification and community detection
Maximilian Jerdee, Alec Kirkley, M. E. J. Newman
Normalized mutual information is widely used as a similarity measure for evaluating the performance of clustering and classification algorithms. In this paper, we argue that result…