Silhouette: Proximity Measure Based Diagnostics for Standard, Soft, and
Multi-Way Clustering
Quantifies clustering quality by measuring both cohesion within clusters and separation between clusters. Implements advanced silhouette width computations for diverse clustering structures, including: simplified silhouette (Van der Laan et al., 2003) <doi:10.1080/0094965031000136012>, Probability of Alternative Cluster normalization methods (Raymaekers & Rousseeuw, 2022) <doi:10.1080/10618600.2022.2050249>, fuzzy clustering and silhouette diagnostics using membership probabilities (Campello & Hruschka, 2006; Menardi, 2011; Bhat & Kiruthika, 2024) <doi:10.1016/j.fss.2006.07.006>, <doi:10.1007/s11222-010-9169-0>, <doi:10.1080/23737484.2024.2408534>, and multi-way clustering extensions such as block and tensor clustering (Schepers et al., 2008; Bhat & Kiruthika, 2025) <doi:10.1007/s00357-008-9005-9>, <doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-6973596/v1>. Provides tools for computation and visualization (Rousseeuw, 1987) <doi:10.1016/0377-0427(87)90125-7> to support robust and reproducible cluster diagnostics across standard, soft, and multi-way clustering settings.
| Version: | 0.9.6 | 
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.2.0) | 
| Imports: | dplyr, ggplot2, ggpubr, lifecycle, methods, stats | 
| Suggests: | proxy, ppclust, blockcluster, cluster, factoextra, drclust, tidyr, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0) | 
| Published: | 2025-10-15 | 
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.Silhouette | 
| Author: | Shrikrishna Bhat K  [aut, cre,
    cph],
  Kiruthika C  [aut] | 
| Maintainer: | Shrikrishna Bhat K  <skbhat.in at gmail.com> | 
| BugReports: | https://github.com/kskbhat/Silhouette/issues | 
| License: | GPL-2 | 
| URL: | https://kskbhat.github.io/Silhouette/ | 
| NeedsCompilation: | no | 
| Language: | en-US | 
| Citation: | Silhouette citation info | 
| Materials: | README, NEWS | 
| In views: | Cluster | 
| CRAN checks: | Silhouette results | 
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