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Table 3 New index for good representation of data points

From: A practical approach to cluster validation in the energy sector

Goal

Index

Index Definition

Representation by data points

Icp2cent

Measure of how well a cluster is represented by a single point out of its cluster (i.e., closest point xcp to the centroid of the cluster ci with xcp∈Ci). The higher the index, the better the representation.