Similarity vs Correlation - What's the difference?
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Closeness of appearance to something else.
(philosophy) The relation of sharing properties.
A reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects
(statistics) One of the several measures of the linear statistical relationship between two random variables, indicating both the strength and direction of the relationship.
An isomorphism from a projective space to the dual of a projective space, often to the dual of itself.
As nouns the difference between similarity and correlation
is that similarity is closeness of appearance to something else while correlation is a reciprocal, parallel or complementary relationship between two or more comparable objects.similarity
English
Noun
(similarities)- Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all. — Sir W. Hamilton.
