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Correlation Angles and Inner Products: Application to a Problem from Physics

Applications 2011-08-29 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

Covariance is used as an inner product on a formal vector space built on n random variables to define measures of correlation Md across a set of vectors in a d-dimensional space. For d = 1, one has the diameter; for d = 2, one has an area. These concepts are directly applied to correlation studies in climate science.

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@article{arxiv.1108.5308,
  title  = {Correlation Angles and Inner Products: Application to a Problem from Physics},
  author = {David H. Douglass and Jonathan Pakianathan and Adam Towsley},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.5308},
  year   = {2011}
}
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