Polyhedral transformation for indexed rank order correlation queries

  • Authors:
  • Philon Nguyen;Nematollaah Shiri

  • Affiliations:
  • Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada;Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Rank order correlation has been used extensively when the data is non-parametric or when the relationship between two variables is nonlinear and monotonic. In such cases, linear correlation measures, such as the product-moment coefficient, are inadequate and fail to detect correlative relations. We present a polyhedral indexing technique for rank order correlation queries for time series data. We use an interesting geometry interpretation of rank order correlation which lends itself to indexing by spatial indexes such as R-trees. Our experimental results indicate one to two orders of magnitudes improvement over sequential scan - the only alternative solution.