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Update documentation: Default objective-weights and negative weights

Open wmodes opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

The current documentation says

By supplying weights via the --objective-weights flag, the user can control the relative importance of each column in the data.

However, there is no mention what the default weights are. If you are only setting a single column, what scale should I use to match the default weights? 0 to 1? 0-5? 0-10? 0-100?

Having this explicit would be helpful.

Also, are negative weights possible? This can be used to reverse the meaning of certain measures. Where diff tends to group heterogeneous criteria, a negative weight for diff would group homogeneous criteria.

wmodes avatar Aug 15 '19 15:08 wmodes