I don't see the problem here. We only want to compare two items so Jaccard and
Tanimoto are identical.
Could you file a JIRA and suggest a javadoc patch?
Why did this take you to an ancient journal instead of Wikipedia?
On Apr 7, 2013, at 6:54 AM, James Endicott wrote:
As far as I can
I didn't want to file a suggestion for a javadoc patch without hearing from
someone who knows a bit more about the math history behind it because I
didn't want to suggest something that may be in error. When I checked the
Wikipedia article on it, the article noted that there was confusion an
To my mind, you as the reader have a major voice here.
So if you were confused/not happy with the doc, then there is a problem.
You will know best how to fix that when you get done.
So let us know how!
On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 2:16 PM, James Endicott endicott.ja...@gmail.comwrote:
I didn't
I might be wrong about this because I'm just a grad student and my
knowledge of statistics and ability to read French leave something to be
desired but I think that the TanimotoSimilarity scorer actually uses the
Jaccard similarity measure instead of the TanimotoSimilarity measure. The
javadocs
I had not heard of Tanimoto being generalized to n-way similarity, but
then again, I can't say I know much at all authoritative about the
term. The Wikipedia page says it's incorrectly used to describe a lot
of things. Here, we're only looking at 2-way comparisons, pair-wise
similarity. As far as
