Phi Coefficient Similarity

Measure to compare two or more sets w.r.t. their similarity.

Usage

phi(sets, p, na_value = NaN, ...)

Arguments

sets: (list())
List of character or integer vectors. sets must have at least 2 elements.
p: (integer(1))
Total number of possible elements.
na_value: (numeric(1))
Value that should be returned if the measure is not defined for the input (as described in the note). Default is NaN.
...: (any)
Additional arguments. Currently ignored.

Value

Performance value as numeric(1).

Details

The Phi Coefficient is defined as the Pearson correlation between the binary representation of two sets \(A\) and \(B\). The binary representation for \(A\) is a logical vector of length \(p\) with the i-th element being 1 if the corresponding element is in \(A\), and 0 otherwise.

If more than two sets are provided, the mean of all pairwise scores is calculated.

This measure is undefined if one set contains none or all possible elements.

Meta Information

Type: "similarity"
Range: \([-1, 1]\)
Minimize: FALSE

References

Nogueira S, Brown G (2016). “Measuring the Stability of Feature Selection.” In Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 442–457. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46227-1_28 .

Bommert A, Rahnenführer J, Lang M (2017). “A Multicriteria Approach to Find Predictive and Sparse Models with Stable Feature Selection for High-Dimensional Data.” Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2017, 1–18. doi:10.1155/2017/7907163 .

Bommert A, Lang M (2021). “stabm: Stability Measures for Feature Selection.” Journal of Open Source Software, 6(59), 3010. doi:10.21105/joss.03010 .

Examples

set.seed(1)
sets = list(
  sample(letters[1:3], 1),
  sample(letters[1:3], 2)
)
phi(sets, p = 3)
#> [1] 0.5