Relation between pearson's correlation coefficient r and salton's cosine measure

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1027-1036

  Egghe, Leo ^a,b   Leydesdorff, Loet ^c  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUD OF POINT; COCITATION; L1 NORM; L2-NORM; MATRIX; OCCURRENCE MATRIX; PEARSON CORRELATION; PEARSON'S CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; SALTON'S COSINE MEASURE; STRAIGHT LINES; THEORETICAL RESULT; VECTOR SPACES;

EID: 65649139612     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.21009     Document Type: Article

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