[R] correlation between two 2D point patterns?

[William Simpson]

Thanks Chuck. Interesting suggestion.

Thanks to everyone for the help.

Bill

On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Charles C. Berry<cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu> wrote:
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> Bill,
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>        prod( cancor( A,B )$cor )
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> perhaps?
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> Note that this accounts for linear transformations.
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> HTH,
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> Chuck
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> On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, William Simpson wrote:
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>> Suppose I have two sets of (x,y) points like this:
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>> x1<-runif(n=10)
>> y1<-runif(n=10)
>> A<-cbind(x1,y1)
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>> x2<-runif(n=10)
>> y2<-runif(n=10)
>> B<-cbind(x2,y2)
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>> I would like to measure how similar the two sets of points are.
>> Something like a correlation coefficient, where 0 means the two
>> patterns are unrelated, and 1 means they are identical. And in
>> addition I'd like to be able to assign a p-value to the calculated
>> statistic.
>>
>> cor(x1,x2)
>> cor(y1,y2)
>> gives two numbers instead of one.
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>> cor(A,B)
>> gives a correlation matrix
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>> I have looked a little at spatial statistics. I have seen methods
>> that, for each point, search in some neighbourhood around it and then
>> compute the correlation as a function of search radius. That is not
>> what I am looking for. I would like a single number that summarises
>> the strength of the relationship between the two patterns.
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>> I will do procrustes on the two point sets first, so that if A is just
>> a rotated, translated, scaled, reflected version of B the two patterns
>> will superimpose and the statistic I'm looking for will say there is
>> perfect correspondence.
>>
>> Thanks very much for any help in finding such a statistic and
>> calculating it using R.
>>
>> Bill
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