NAME

Set::Similarity::Jaccard - Jaccard coefficent for sets

SYNOPSIS

use Set::Similarity::Jaccard;

my $jaccard = Set::Similarity::Jaccard->new;
my $similarity = $jaccard->similarity('Photographer','Fotograf');

DESCRIPTION

Jaccard Index

The Jaccard coefficient measures similarity between sample sets, and is defined as the size of the intersection divided by the size of the union of the sample sets

( A intersect B ) / (A union B)

The Tanimoto coefficient is the ratio of the number of elements common to both sets to the total number of elements, i.e.

( A intersect B ) / ( A + B - ( A intersect B ) ) # the same as Jaccard

The range is 0 to 1 inclusive.

METHODS

Set::Similarity::Jaccard inherits all methods from Set::Similarity and implements the following new ones.

from_sets

my $similarity = $object->from_sets(['a'],['b']);

This method expects two arrayrefs of strings as parameters. The parameters are not checked, thus can lead to funny results or uncatched divisions by zero.

If you want to use this method directly, you should take care that the elements are unique. Also you should catch the situation where one of the arrayrefs is empty (similarity is 0), or both are empty (similarity is 1).

SOURCE REPOSITORY

http://github.com/wollmers/Set-Similarity

AUTHOR

Helmut Wollmersdorfer, <helmut.wollmersdorfer@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2013-2014 by Helmut Wollmersdorfer

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.