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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Hi Abdul,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> I am currently doing some work comparing distributions using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test. This technique is probably not directly applicable but the
basic approach may be? My understanding is the basic metric used is the vertical deviation between the two cumulative distribution curves. Perhaps this methodology can be applied to create a similarity metric for arbitrary curves? As with the KS test you may
want to normalise or standardise the two curves first.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> paraview-bounces@paraview.org [mailto:paraview-bounces@paraview.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Abdullahi Sanusi<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 23 March 2012 12:24 a.m.<br>
<b>To:</b> paraview@paraview.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Paraview] Comparing two curves<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<br>
Given two curves A and B with point set A={p1,q1,r1} and B={p2,q2,r2}. I want to determine if the two curves are the same (similar) and compute the similarity score. Your kind advice will be well appreciated.<br>
Cheer,<br>
Abdul.<o:p></o:p></p>
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