distancePermutationCos {CEGO}

Cosine Distance for Permutations

Description

The Cosine distance for permutations is derived from the Cosine similarity measure which has been applied in fields like text mining. It is based on the scalar product of two vectors (here: permutations).

Usage

distancePermutationCos(x, y)

Arguments

x

first permutation (integer vector)

y

second permutation (integer vector)

Value

numeric distance value

d(x,y)

, scaled to values between 0 and 1 (based on the maximum possible distance between two permutations)

References

Singhal, Amit (2001)."Modern Information Retrieval: A Brief Overview". Bulletin of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Data Engineering 24 (4): 35-43

Examples

x <- 1:5
y <- c(5,1,2,3,4)
distancePermutationCos(x,y)
p <- replicate(10,sample(1:5),simplify=FALSE)
distanceMatrix(p,distancePermutationCos)