cossim: Cosine similarity

View source: R/cossim.R

cossimR Documentation

Cosine similarity

Description

Cosine similarity

Usage

cossim(x, y)

Arguments

x

A numeric vector

y

A numeric vector

Value

The cosine similarity between two vectors

References

Leydesdorff, L. (2005) Similarity Measures, Author Cocitation Analysis,and Information Theory. JASIST 56(7), pp.769-772.

Fridolin Wild (2022) lsa: Latent Semantic Analysis, R package version 0.73.3 https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lsa

Examples

data("act_pattern")

# Calculate the cosine similarity between an activation pattern and itself
similarity <- cossim(
x = act_pattern$signal,
y = act_pattern$signal
)

# Calculate the cosine similarity between a non-negative activation pattern and its negative
similarity <- cossim(
x = act_pattern$signal,
y = -act_pattern$signal
)

musclesyneRgies documentation built on Aug. 26, 2026, 9:06 a.m.