Pearson Distance:
where:
1. is the covariance
2. is the standard deviation of
3. is the standard deviation of
pearson distance:
When we consider and , then pearson distance is the vectorial angle cosine between and
When the length of and is 2, then is either 1 or -1.
The corresponding python code is as follow:
from math import sqrt def pearson(v1,v2): sum1 = sum(v1) sum2 = sum(v2) sum1Sq = sum([pow(v,2) for v in v1]) sum2Sq = sum([pow(v,2) for v in v2]) pSum = sum([v1[i]*v2[i] for i in range(len(v1))]) num = pSum - sum1*sum2/len(v1) den = sqrt(sum1Sq - pow(sum1,2)/len(v1))*sqrt(sum2Sq - pow(sum2,2)/len(v2)) if den == 0: return 1.0 return num/den