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Distance and Similarity Measures
Different measures of distance or similarity are convenient for different types of analysis. Mathematica provides built-in functions for many standard distance measures, as well as the capability to give a symbolic definition for an arbitrary measure.
Numerical Data
EuclideanDistance  ▪ SquaredEuclideanDistance  ▪ NormalizedSquaredEuclideanDistance  ▪ ManhattanDistance  ▪ ChessboardDistance  ▪ BrayCurtisDistance  ▪ CanberraDistance  ▪ CosineDistance  ▪ CorrelationDistance
Boolean Data
HammingDistance  ▪ JaccardDissimilarity  ▪ MatchingDissimilarity  ▪ DiceDissimilarity  ▪ RogersTanimotoDissimilarity  ▪ RussellRaoDissimilarity  ▪ SokalSneathDissimilarity  ▪ YuleDissimilarity
String Data
EditDistance  ▪ DamerauLevenshteinDistance  ▪ HammingDistance  ▪ SmithWatermanSimilarity  ▪ NeedlemanWunschSimilarity
    
DistanceFunction — option for specifying distance functions
Nearest  ▪ FindClusters  ▪ MeanShift  ▪ FindShortestTour  ▪ SequenceAlignment  ▪ DistanceTransform  ▪
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