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A note on the Jaccardized Czekanowski similarity index

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It is shown that the “Jaccardized Czekanowski index” is actually a reinterpretation of the Ružička index. Thereby, it is proved that its one-complement is a true distance function, which makes it particularly suitable for use in similarity studies even with multidimensional statistical techniques.

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András Schubert was supported by the European Commission under the FP7 Science in Society Grant No. 266588 (SISOB project) and by the grant TÁMOP-4.2.5.A-11/1-2012-0001 (MTMT2 project). On behalf of András Telcs this article was made under the project TÁMOP-4.2.2/B-10/1-2010-0025. This project is supported by the European Union and co-financed by the European Social Fund.

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  1. Department of Science Policy and Scientometrics, Library and Information Center of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

    András Schubert

  2. Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

    András Telcs

  3. Department of Quantitative Methods, Faculty of Economics, Pannon University, Veszprém, Hungary

    András Telcs

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Schubert, A., Telcs, A. A note on the Jaccardized Czekanowski similarity index. Scientometrics 98, 1397–1399 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-013-1044-2

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