Dissimilarities.DistanceMethod Property

DissimilaritiesDistanceMethod Property

The method in computing the dissimilarities or similarities.

Namespace: Imsl.Stat
Assembly: ImslCS (in ImslCS.dll) Version: 6.5.2.0

Syntax

public virtual DissimilaritiesMethod DistanceMethod { get; set; }

Public Overridable Property DistanceMethod As DissimilaritiesMethod
	Get
	Set

public:
virtual property DissimilaritiesMethod DistanceMethod {
	DissimilaritiesMethod get ();
	void set (DissimilaritiesMethod value);
}

abstract DistanceMethod : DissimilaritiesMethod with get, set
override DistanceMethod : DissimilaritiesMethod with get, set

Type: DissimilaritiesMethod
A Dissimilarities.Method identifying the method to use in computing the dissimilarities or similarities.

Remarks

Acceptable values of DistanceMethod are:

DistanceMethod	Metric
L2Norm	Euclidean distance ( norm)
L1Norm	Sum of the absolute differences ( norm)
InfinityNorm	Maximum difference ( $L_\infty$ norm)
Mahalanobis	Mahalanobis distance
AbsCosine	Absolute value of the cosine of the angle between the vectors
AngleInRadians	Angle in radians (0, $\pi$ ) between the lines through the origin defined by the vectors
CorrelationCoefficient	Correlation coefficient
AbsCorrelationCoefficient	Absolute value of the correlation coefficient
ExactMatches	Number of exact matches, where .

See class description for more details. By default, DistanceMethod = Method.L2Norm.