| Group: | Linear Algebra |
| See also: | agglom bindata grid |
| Function: | distance | |
| Description: | distance computes the distance between p-dimensional datapoints depending on a specified metric. |
| Usage: | d = distance (x {, metric}) | |
| Input: | ||
| x | n x p matrix | |
| metric | string indentifying the metric name | |
| Output: | ||
| d | symmetric n x n matrix of pairwise distances | |
If no metric is specified, l2 is used.
x = #(1,4)~#(1,5) distance(x, "l1") distance(x, "l2") distance(x, "maximum")
Contents of distance [1,] 0 7 [2,] 7 0 Contents of distance [1,] 0 5 [2,] 5 0 Contents of distance [1,] 0 4 [2,] 4 0