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You are comparing trajectories, or curves. This is a studied topic. Procrustes analysis and dynamic time warping, as EMS says, are tools of the trade. Once you've aligned the curves you'll want to measure the distance, say the Fréchet distance. If you want to share some of your data we could take a crack at it ourselves.

Relevant reading:

If you disregard the temporal dimension:

You could fit the User and Teacher to multivariate Gaussian densities and find the volume of their product. That's--that's pretty easy. If you want more accuracy, you could use a nonparametric density estimate instead.

You could fit the User and Teacher to multivariate Gaussian densities and find the volume of their product. That's pretty easy. If you want more accuracy, you could use a nonparametric density estimate instead.

You are comparing trajectories, or curves. This is a studied topic. Procrustes analysis and dynamic time warping, as EMS says, are tools of the trade. Once you've aligned the curves you'll want to measure the distance, say the Fréchet distance. If you want to share some of your data we could take a crack at it ourselves.

Relevant reading:

If you disregard the temporal dimension:

You could fit the User and Teacher to multivariate Gaussian densities and find the volume of their product--that's pretty easy. If you want more accuracy, you could use a nonparametric density estimate instead.

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You could fit the User and Teacher to multivariate Gaussian densities and find the volume of their product. That's pretty easy. If you want more accuracy, you could use a nonparametric density estimate instead.