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noun
A statistic used to gauge the similarity of two samples. It is equal to twice the number of elements common to both sets, divided by the sum of the number of elements in each set.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences, statistics
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Synonyms: Dice coefficient, Dice's coefficient, Sørensen-Dice index, Sørensen index
Antonyms: none provided
History
Developed independently by the botanists Thorvald Sørensen and Lee Raymond Dice in the 1940s.
