Jaccard Index - Jaccard Similarity Coefficient
  • a type of similarity function that measures the similarity between 2 sets
  • by the ratio between the size of the intersection over the size of the union
  • for measuring dis-similarity see Jaccard Distance Metric

Formula

  • 𝐽(𝐴,𝐵) = |𝐴⋂𝐵| / |𝐴⋃𝐵|

where:

  • 𝐽 - Jaccard Distance
  • || - the size of set
  • ⋂ - intersection
  • ⋃ - union
  • 𝐴 - set 1
  • 𝐵 - set 2