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Normalized compression distance

Normalized compression distance (NCD) is a way of measuring the similarity between two objects, be it two documents, two letters, two emails, two music scores, two languages, two programs, two pictures, two systems, two genomes, to name a few. Such a measurement should not be application dependent or arbitrary. A reasonable definition for the similarity…

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Information distance

Normalized compression distance

Normalized Google distance

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Normalized compression distance

Nodes32
Edges31
Triples14
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.0625
Components1

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Normalized compression distance

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related to Normalized compression distance · 10
Normalized compression distance → Cilibrasi, If, NCD, NID, PPMZ, Simply, The, The NCD, Vitanyi, While
has application · 4
Normalized compression distance → It, NCD, The, The NID

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Important terminology

distance ncd similarity information metric displaystyle normalized one nid objects compression data two applications nrc strings length used classification relative

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Normalized compression distancehas applicationThe0.60section
Normalized compression distancehas applicationIt0.60section
Normalized compression distancehas applicationThe NID0.60section
Normalized compression distancehas applicationNCD0.60section
Normalized compression distancerelated to Normalized compression distanceWhile0.60section
Normalized compression distancerelated to Normalized compression distanceNID0.60section
Normalized compression distancerelated to Normalized compression distanceSimply0.60section
Normalized compression distancerelated to Normalized compression distanceVitanyi0.60section
Normalized compression distancerelated to Normalized compression distanceCilibrasi0.60section
Normalized compression distancerelated to Normalized compression distanceNCD0.60section
Normalized compression distancerelated to Normalized compression distanceIf0.60section
Normalized compression distancerelated to Normalized compression distancePPMZ0.60section

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