On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Hanke, Alex wrote: > Distances cannot always be constructed from similarities. This can be done > only if the matrix of similarities is nonnegative definite. With the > nonnegative definite condition, and with the maximum similarity scaled so > that s_ii=1, d_ik=(2*(1-s_ik))^-.5
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