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CanberraDistance

CanberraDistance[u, v]
gives the Canberra distance between vectors

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CanberraDistance[u, v] is equivalent to Total[Abs[u-v]/(Abs[u]+Abs[v])]. »

Basic Examples (2)

Canberra distance between two vectors:

Canberra distance between numeric vectors:

Applications (2)

Properties & Relations (2)

BrayCurtisDistance EuclideanDistance ManhattanDistance ChessboardDistance

Partitioning Data into Clusters

Distance and Similarity Measures

Demonstrations with CanberraDistance (Wolfram Demonstrations Project)

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