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GoDistances

GoDistances is a library for calculating different kind of distance between n-dimensional vectors. This code has been highly influenced by Bugra Akyildiz' kmeans project https://github.com/bugra/kmeans.

This lib comes with this distances calculations:

• Bray Curtis Distance
  • http://people.revoledu.com/kardi/tutorial/Similarity/BrayCurtisDistance.html
  • http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Bray+Curtis+Distance
• Canberra Distance
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canberra_distance
  • http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/CanberraDistance.html
• Chebyshev Distance -> Minkowski infinite
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev_distance
  • http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/ChessboardDistance.html
• Euclidean Distance
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_distance
  • http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/EuclideanDistance.html
• Euclidean Distance Squared
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_distance#Squared_Euclidean_distance
• http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/SquaredEuclideanDistance.html
• Hamming Distance (Vectors only)
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_distance
  • http://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/HammingDistance.html
• LP-Norm Distance
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_%28mathematics%29
• Manhattan Distance
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicab_geometry
  • http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TaxicabMetric.html
• Minkowski Distance and Minkowski weighed Distance
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski_distance
  • http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=minkowski+measure
• Vincenty Geo Distance
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincenty%27s_formulae
  • [German] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodrome#Berechnungsbeispiel_Berlin_.E2.80.93_Tokio Logo based of original design by Renee French http://reneefrench.blogspot.de/ and modified by Julia R.

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