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Several desirable order properties for dissimilarity coefficients based on presence/absence of attributes are given and several popular dissimilarity coefficients are examined with respect to these properties. A characterization for rational functions with linear numerator and linear denominator satisfying all of the desirable properties is given.
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Baulieu, F.B. A classification of presence/absence based dissimilarity coefficients. Journal of Classification 6, 233–246 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01908601
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