The formula at the bottom of the page gives interesting results compared to Pearson's and Spearman's.
http://books.google.com/books?id=GYeCVypPpaAC&lpg=PA316&pg=PA316#v=onepage&q&f=false On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Lance Norskog <[email protected]> wrote: > This paper compares Pearson, Spearman and Hoeffding's D measure as > similarity measures for DNA matching. It claims Hoeffding is the best. > http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19634197 > > Chasing down Hoeffding as a similarity measure, the closest I've come > is the Hoeffding Bound or Additive Chernoff Bound. Page 2, right-hand > column has a description of the algorithm: > http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/pedrod/papers/kdd00.pdf > > Is this the right base math? Given this formula for acceptable errors, > what would be the algorithm for a similarity measure? > > Also, what does a negative correlation value mean? Should I just look > at the absolute value? > > -- > Lance Norskog > [email protected] > -- Lance Norskog [email protected]
