Difference between revisions of "Pearson correlation"

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* [[Wikipedia: Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient]]
 
* [[Wikipedia: Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient]]
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Revision as of 11:05, 3 February 2012

The Pearson correlation is also called Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (PMCC). It measures the correlation (similarity) between to random variables (in collaborative filtering: user or item vectors). The values lie between -1 (opposite values) and +1 (equality).

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