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CorrelationDistance[u,v]

gives the correlation coefficient distance between vectors u and v.

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CorrelationDistance

CorrelationDistance[u,v]

gives the correlation coefficient distance between vectors u and v.

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Basic Examples  (2)

The correlation distance between two vectors:

Correlation distance between numeric vectors:

Scope  (2)

Compute distance between any vectors of equal length:

Compute distance between vectors of any precision:

Applications  (1)

Cluster data using correlation distance:

Properties & Relations  (3)

Correlation distance includes a dot product scaled by norms:

Correlation distance includes a dot product scaled by Euclidean distances from the mean:

CorrelationDistance is equivalent to CosineDistance of vectors shifted by their means:

Wolfram Research (2007), CorrelationDistance, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CorrelationDistance.html.

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Wolfram Research (2007), CorrelationDistance, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CorrelationDistance.html.

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Wolfram Language. 2007. "CorrelationDistance." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CorrelationDistance.html.

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Wolfram Language. (2007). CorrelationDistance. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CorrelationDistance.html

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@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_correlationdistance, author="Wolfram Research", title="{CorrelationDistance}", year="2007", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CorrelationDistance.html}", note=[Accessed: 14-August-2025]}

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@online{reference.wolfram_2025_correlationdistance, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={CorrelationDistance}, year={2007}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CorrelationDistance.html}, note=[Accessed: 14-August-2025]}