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; Bhat & Kiruthika, 2024) <doi:10.1016/j.fss.2006.07.006>, <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: 0.9.4
Imports: dplyr, ggplot2, ggpubr, methods
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), ppclust, blockcluster, cluster, factoextra, proxy
Published: 2025-07-30
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.Silhouette
Author: Shrikrishna Bhat K ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph], Kiruthika C ORCID iD [aut]
Maintainer: Shrikrishna Bhat K <skbhat.in at gmail.com>
License: GPL-2
URL: https://kskbhat.github.io/Silhouette/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: Silhouette results

Documentation:

Reference manual: Silhouette.html , Silhouette.pdf
Vignettes: Silhouette Package (source, R code)

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Package source: Silhouette_0.9.4.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: Silhouette_0.9.4.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): Silhouette_0.9.4.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): Silhouette_0.9.4.tgz, r-release (x86_64): Silhouette_0.9.4.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): Silhouette_0.9.4.tgz

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