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MarcosRL
Hello friends of the community I have doubts about the distances:
Why the average distances are negative (Avg. Within distance_cluster centroid)?
One of the properties of the distances is not always positive?
regard
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MarcosRL
Hello, I wanted to ask if they could see the issue of negative distances
It is a bug?
Please confirm that I need so I see if I keep using this tool to measure the distance, because it is for an academic and my deadlines expire
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Nils_Woehler
Hi,
can you please post a process so that we can reproduce this?
Best,
Nils
MarcosRL
the problem is not in the process, but in the data, when there is a null or zero yields seemingly negative distances.
I change the tools in case XD
regards
Nils_Woehler
Can you provide sample data to reproduce this? Otherwise we cannot check if it is a bug and what is happening.
Best,
Nils
MarcosRL
Here are the sample data in vector form, because I can not attach the excel
I can not excel adjuntarte one, either the data vector because it exceeds the capacity of the message, is there any alternative way to send the data?
regards
Nils_Woehler
Hi,
I could reproduce your negative distances with the Performance (Cluster Distance Performance) operator. But this is not a bug, it is meant to work this way because the distances are multiplied by -1 to allow using them for optimization. If you want to see the positive distances you should select the 'maximize' parameter. But you should not use the resulting performance objects for optimization if you have selected this parameter!
The reason for multiplying by -1: The Performance (Cluster Distance Performance) calculates the average distance within centroids. The smaller the distances are the better the clustering works (in theory). But our optimization operators always try to maximize the performance of an algorithm. This means if you don't multiply be -1, the optimization algorithm would always prefer cluster results with a higher average distance within centroids.
Best,
Nils
MarcosRL
Thank you very much
now I understand
Regards
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