[BioC] cosine similarity

Sean Davis sdavis2 at mail.nih.gov
Mon Jun 27 14:35:36 CEST 2011


Hi, Joe.

Not positive if this is what you want, but you might look at the
cosine() function in the lsa package.

Sean

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 8:24 AM, joe j <joe.stata at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am after a package that would calculate the uncentred correlation
> (or cosine similarity; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosine_similarity)
> between pairs of observations. I know that bioconductor has packages
> that compute distance measures such as mahalanobis distance (the
> package mdqc does this). Is there any package that calculates cosine
> similarity?
>
> Regards,
> Joe.
>
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