marianomanto
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Hello my friends! Here I am at almost midnight working on some aspects I need to understand for a project.
"The cosine index
is a correlation coefficient to measure the similarity between two technological fields in terms of their mutual relationships with all other fields (it is symmetric) The index is greater (can be larger than one) the more related are technologies i and j and tends to zero when they are not at all."
The author then uses this index in the following way: "the variable X was constructed using the parameter R weighted by the cosine index."
Then he does not show anything and moves on.
You are smarter than me. Could you please give me an explanation and a mathematical expression of this variable X?
Thank you very math! I mean much!
"The cosine index
is a correlation coefficient to measure the similarity between two technological fields in terms of their mutual relationships with all other fields (it is symmetric) The index is greater (can be larger than one) the more related are technologies i and j and tends to zero when they are not at all."The author then uses this index in the following way: "the variable X was constructed using the parameter R weighted by the cosine index."
Then he does not show anything and moves on.
You are smarter than me. Could you please give me an explanation and a mathematical expression of this variable X?
Thank you very math! I mean much!