[R] Zero mean correlation Matrix

[Charles C. Berry]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008, AliR wrote:

>
> Hi,,
>
> I want to use the existing cor function in R but with a different way to
> compute the correlation method.. basically zero mean correlation.
>
> The forumula I have is
>
> 'D' <- function(c1, c2)
>  sum(c1*c2, na.rm=T)/(sqrt(sum(c1*c1, na.rm=T))*sqrt(sum(c2*c2, na.rm=T)))
>
>
> I am not sure how i can modify the method cor computes its square roots and
> covariance matrixes? I only need to add this to get the answer

See

 	?crossprod

If you replace the NA's in c1 and c2 by zeroes, crossprod(c1,c2) is the 
same sum(c1*c2) which is the same as sum(c1,c2,na.rm=TRUE) was before you 
changed the NAs to zeroes.

HTH,

Chuck
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