Which is not surprising as it is Pearson's.

On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Lance Norskog <[email protected]> wrote:
> The formula at the bottom of the page gives interesting results
> compared to Pearson's and Spearman's.
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> http://books.google.com/books?id=GYeCVypPpaAC&lpg=PA316&pg=PA316#v=onepage&q&f=false
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> 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]
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