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@article{rand_objective_1971,
  author       = {Rand, William M.},
  title        = {Objective criteria for the evaluation of clustering methods},
  journaltitle = {Journal of the American Statistical Association},
  shortjournal = {J Amer Statist Assoc},
  date         = {1971-12},
  volume       = {66},
  number       = {336},
  pages        = {846},
  doi          = {10.2307/2284239},
  urldate      = {2013-12-18},
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@article{hubert_comparing_1985,
  author       = {Hubert, Lawrence and Arabie, Phipps},
  title        = {Comparing partitions},
  journaltitle = {Journal of Classification},
  shortjournal = {J Classif},
  date         = {1985-12-01},
  volume       = {2},
  number       = {1},
  pages        = {193-218},
  doi          = {10.1007/BF01908075},
  urldate      = {2013-12-18},

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This is the main text citing~\parencite{hubert_comparing_1985} and~\parencite{rand_objective_1971}
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