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[amibroker] Re: What is Correlation



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Thank you, Tomasz.

I should have guessed it.

Another reason for double precision floating point ?

Even lowly MS Excel uses double precision.

It's frustrating to see the difference when checking against another
application.

--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <groups@xxx> wrote:
>
> They do (of course upto standard IEEE floating point rounding error).
> 
> Best regards,
> Tomasz Janeczko
> amibroker.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "john_dxd_smith" <john_dxd_smith@xxx>
> To: <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 8:31 AM
> Subject: [amibroker] Re: What is Correlation
> 
> 
> > 
> > They don't return the same number.
> > 
> > --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Tomasz Janeczko" <amibroker@>
wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >> 
> >> Built-in correlation is calculated according to this formula:
> >> 
> >>  
> >> 
> >> 
> >> See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation
> >> 
> >> It can be re-coded in AFL as:
> >> 
> >>   
> >> function Correl( x, y, number )
> >> {
> >>  nom= MA( x * y, number ) - MA( x, number ) * MA( y, number );
> >>  denom = sqrt( MA( x ^ 2, number ) - MA( x, number ) ^ 2 ) *
> >>  sqrt( MA( y ^ 2, number ) - MA( y, number ) ^ 2 );
> >>  return nom/denom;
> >> }
> >> 
> >> Graph0=Correlation( C, Ref( H, -2 ), 10 ); // built-in
> >> 
> >> Graph1=Correl( C, Ref( H, -2 ), 10 ); // re-coded;
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Best regards,
> >> Tomasz Janeczko
> >> amibroker.com
> >> 
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: "Graham" <kavemanperth@>
> >> To: "amibroker" <amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 8:29 AM
> >> Subject: [amibroker] What is Correlation
> >> 
> >> 
> >> > Can anyone tell me what Correlation is actually calculating
> >> > I have read the description in help files but am still confused
what
> >> > it is actually calculated.
> >> > In what way is it actually comparing the 2 arrays.
> >> > 
> >> > --
> >> > Cheers
> >> > Graham
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> >> > 
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