DOCUMENTATION CENTER SEARCH
Mathematica
>
Distance and Dissimilarity Measures
>
Built-in
Mathematica
Symbol
Partitioning Data into Clusters
Tutorials »
|
HammingDistance
StringCount
JaccardDissimilarity
See Also »
|
Exploratory Data Analysis
Discrete & Integer Data
Distance and Dissimilarity Measures
Processing Textual Data
String Manipulation
New in 6.0: Core Language
New in 6.0: Statistics
More About »
EditDistance
EditDistance
[
u
,
v
]
gives the edit or Levenshtein distance between strings or vectors
u
and
v
.
MORE INFORMATION
EditDistance
[
u
,
v
]
gives the number of one-element deletions, insertions, and substitutions required to transform
u
to
v
.
For strings, setting the option
IgnoreCase
->
True
makes
EditDistance
treat lower- and upper-case letters as equivalent.
EXAMPLES
CLOSE ALL
Basic Examples
(2)
Edit distance between two strings:
In[1]:=
Out[1]=
Edit distance between two vectors:
In[1]:=
Out[1]=
Scope
(2)
Options
(1)
Applications
(2)
Properties & Relations
(2)
SEE ALSO
HammingDistance
StringCount
JaccardDissimilarity
TUTORIALS
Partitioning Data into Clusters
MORE ABOUT
Exploratory Data Analysis
Discrete & Integer Data
Distance and Dissimilarity Measures
Processing Textual Data
String Manipulation
New in 6.0: Core Language
New in 6.0: Statistics
New in 6
© 2008 Wolfram Research, Inc.
EXAMPLES
Basic Examples 
Scope 