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license: GPL-3.0-only
title: 'SaturnCoefficient: Statistical Evaluation of UMAP Dimensionality Reductions'
version: '1.6'
doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.3424
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.SaturnCoefficient
abstract: 'A metric expressing the quality of a UMAP layout. This is a package that
  contains the Saturn_coefficient() function that reads an input matrix, its dimensionality
  reduction produced by UMAP, and evaluates the quality of this dimensionality reduction
  by producing a real value in the [0; 1] interval. We call this real value Saturn
  coefficient. A higher value means better dimensionality reduction; a lower value
  means worse dimensionality reduction. Reference: Davide Chicco et al. (February
  2026), "The advantages of our proposed Saturn coefficient over continuity and trustworthiness
  for UMAP dimensionality reduction evaluation", PeerJ Computer Science 12:e3424 (pp.
  1-30), <https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.3424>.'
authors:
- family-names: Chicco
  given-names: Davide
  email: davidechicco@davidechicco.it
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9655-7142
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: The advantages of our proposed Saturn coefficient over continuity and trustworthiness
    for UMAP dimensionality reduction evaluation
  authors:
  - family-names: Chicco
    given-names: Davide
    email: davidechicco@davidechicco.it
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9655-7142
  - family-names: Melzi
    given-names: Simone
  - family-names: Gasparini
    given-names: Francesca
  - family-names: Jurman
    given-names: Giuseppe
  journal: PeerJ Computer Science
  year: '2026'
  volume: '12'
  issue: e3424
  doi: 10.7717/peerj-cs.3424
  url: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.3424
  start: '1'
  end: '30'
repository: https://davidechicco.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/davidechicco/SaturnCoefficient_R_package
commit: 42ab0bd976d9898af2301d8358960bad7ba563d3
url: https://github.com/davidechicco/SaturnCoefficient_R_package
date-released: '2026-02-12'
contact:
- family-names: Chicco
  given-names: Davide
  email: davidechicco@davidechicco.it
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9655-7142