great. thanks a lot.

srowen wrote:
> 
> Yes. Look at PearsonCorrelationSimilarity. It implements
> ItemSimilarity so it can compute a Pearson correlation between ratings
> for two items. Pearson is the covariance divided by the product of the
> standard deviations. So, just multiply the similarity value you get by
> the standard deviations of the items' preference values.
> 
> The variance of each item's preference values is simply the square of
> the standard deviation, if that's what you mean.
> 
> You can use RunningAverageAndStdDev to help compute standard deviation
> if you like.
> 
> On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:14 PM, jamborta <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> hi guys,
>> just wondering if you have a method implemeted which would calculate the
>> covariance between two items. and the variance of an item. I looked
>> itemSimilarities but that one does something different.
>>
>> thanks
>> Tama
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