What is OverlapSimilarity

Legacy UserLegacy User Member Posts: 0 Newbie
edited November 2018 in Help
Hi,

I've just tried some similarity measures on a special dataset and the OverlapSimilarity yielded the best results. Now I'm wondering how this similarity measure works, I couldn't find any info about it. Does someone know about this OverlapSimilarity?

thanks,
Chris

Answers

  • landland RapidMiner Certified Analyst, RapidMiner Certified Expert, Member Posts: 2,531 Unicorn
    Hi Chris,
    this is a simple numerical matching. it works this way (formulated in pseudo code):

    for (0 <= i < number of dimensions)
      wx = wx + point1
      wy = wy + point2
      wxy = wxy + min(point1, point2)
    }
    return wxy / min(wx, wy)
    Greetings,
      Sebastian
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