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I.T./Maths help

Discussion in 'Computers and Gaming' started by RafaelScheidt, May 23, 2009.

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  1. RafaelScheidt

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    Doing an IT exam on monday, haven't a clue how to do these questions.
    Can any one help?

    Book1 Book2 Book3 Book4 Book5
    Bob - 6 5 5 6
    Carol 7 4 7 2 -
    Dave 1 7 4 - 5



    Table 1 shows the matrix of ratings by three people for five books. Ratings are in the range 1 to 7 inclusive where 1 indicates 'dislike' while 7 indicates 'like'.
    (i) Use Pearsons Correlation to find the similarity between Bob and Dave. Show your Workings.
    (ii) Use the Correlation value found in the part (i) you must predict a rating for Bob for Book 1. Show your approach and all workings.


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    Given the Following web-graph (Figure 1) containing 5 pages (N=5):
    (i) Show the Page Rank equation for each page in the graph assuming the damping factor is 0.5(d=0.5)
    (ii)Calculate the PageRank scores of each page using matrix operations (show your workings).