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Package: DBCVindex
Title: Calculates the Density-Based Clustering Validation (DBCV) Index
Version: 1.6
Authors@R: c(
                  person("Davide", "Chicco", email = "davidechicco@davidechicco.it", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-9655-7142"),
                  role = c("cre")),
                  person("Pablo Andretta", "Jaskowiak", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-6377-3372"),
                  role = c("aut"))
                  )
Description: A metric called 'Density-Based Clustering Validation
        index' (DBCV) index to evaluate clustering results, following
        the
        <https://github.com/pajaskowiak/clusterConfusion/blob/main/R/dbcv.R>
        'R' implementation by Pablo Andretta Jaskowiak. Original 'DBCV'
        index article: Moulavi, D., Jaskowiak, P. A., Campello, R. J.,
        Zimek, A., and Sander, J. (April 2014), "Density-based
        clustering validation", Proceedings of SDM 2014 -- the 2014
        SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (pp. 839-847),
        <doi:10.1137/1.9781611973440.96>. A more recent article on the
        'DBCV' index: Chicco, D., Sabino, G.; Oneto, L.; Jurman, G.
        (August 2025), "The DBCV index is more informative than DCSI,
        CDbw, and VIASCKDE indices for unsupervised clustering internal
        assessment of concave-shaped and density-based clusters", PeerJ
        Computer Science 11:e3095 (pp. 1-),
        <doi:10.7717/peerj-cs.3095>.
Depends: R (>= 4.0.0)
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/davidechicco/DBCVindex
BugReports: https://github.com/davidechicco/DBCVindex/issues
Imports: qpdf
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown
VignetteBuilder: knitr
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-11 06:34:16 UTC; root
Author: Davide Chicco [cre] (ORCID:
        <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9655-7142>), Pablo Andretta
        Jaskowiak [aut] (ORCID:
        <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6377-3372>)
Maintainer: Davide Chicco <davidechicco@davidechicco.it>
Repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-01-12 15:50:02 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cran/DBCVindex
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