Distance functions for categorical and mixed variables.
Brendan McCaneMichael AlbertPublished in: Pattern Recognit. Lett. (2008)
Keyphrases
- distance function
- knn
- nearest neighbor
- similarity search
- euclidean distance
- distance measure
- distance metric
- variable selection
- metric space
- similarity function
- complex objects
- data points
- numerical values
- k nearest neighbor
- categorical variables
- distance computation
- triangle inequality
- database
- feature space
- edit distance
- pattern recognition
- categorical data
- machine learning
- databases