[R] 1-Pearson's R Distance

[Rodrigo Aluizio]

Claudia, Thomas and William thank you all so much.
It's exactly what we needed.
Works perfectly.

Rodrigo.

-----Mensagem original-----
De: r-help-bounces em r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces em r-project.org] Em nome de Claudia Beleites
Enviada em: quinta-feira, 27 de novembro de 2008 14:01
Para: r-help em r-project.org
Assunto: Re: [R] 1-Pearson's R Distance

Hi Rodrigo, 

afaik, (1 - r_Pearson)/2 is used rather than 1 - r_Pearson. This gives a 
distance measure ranging between 0 and 1 rather than 0 and 2. But after all, 
dies does not change anything substantial.
see e.g. Theodoridis & Koutroumbas: Pattern Recognition. 

I didn't know of the proxy package, but the calculation it straightforward 
(though a bit wasteful I suspect: first the whole matrix is produced, and 
as.dist cuts it down again to a triangular matrix):

as.dist (0.5 - cor (t(x) / 2)) 

Take care wheter you want to use x or t(x).

HTH Claudia



-- 
Claudia Beleites
Dipartimento dei Materiali e delle Risorse Naturali
Università degli Studi di Trieste
Via Alfonso Valerio 6/a
I-34127 Trieste

phone: +39 (0 40) 5 58-34 47
email: cbeleites em units.it

______________________________________________
R-help em r-project.org mailing list
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.