Measurements in Pattern Space Overview

In this Chapter some often used distance measurements in a d-dimen- sional space are summarized. 

The most frequently used distance measurements are derived from the general Minkowski distance 

FIGURE 15. Euclidean distance and city block distance- 

The Hamming distance can also be written in another form C3533  

The Hamming distance has some disadvantages for vectors with only a few components containing 1 s. An alternative is the Tanimoto distance which is a normalized Hamming distance C3983. 

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