Sum, over the target rows, of the Euclidean distance to the nearest training row: the cost that partitioning around medoids minimizes when the training rows are the medoids. Smaller is better.
Details
See criteria for the list of criteria and the package website for one page per criterion.
References
Kaufman, L., & Rousseeuw, P. J. (1990). Finding groups in data: an introduction to cluster analysis. Wiley. <doi:10.1002/9780470316801> Guo, T., et al. (2019). Optimal designs for genomic selection in hybrid crops. Molecular Plant, 12, 390-401. <doi:10.1016/j.molp.2018.12.022> Rio, S., et al. (2021). Genomic prediction and training set optimization in a structured Mediterranean oat population. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 134, 3595-3609. <doi:10.1007/s00122-021-03916-w>
Examples
data(geno)
pam_score(geno[1:50, ], geno[51:100, ])
#> [1] 6588.776