Euclidean distance assumes that the sample points are distributed about the sample mean in a spherical manner, which is not always true. Hence, the Pearson correlation score is used instead of the Euclidean distance score. The computation of the Pearson correlation score is explained next.
Computing a Pearson correlation score
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