Statistics.PairwiseDistance Function

Pairwise distance.

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procedure PairwiseDistance(const X: TMtx; const D: TMtx; p: Integer; const Method: TPWDistMethod = pwdistEuclidian); overload;

Calculates the pairwise distance for variables, stored in X.

Suppose we have collected 5 data points with 3 variables. The data matrix will look like:

X=[2,1,3,
  2,3,1,
  4,5,6,
  6,6,6
  7,5,3]

To calculate Euclidian distance between each pair of points, we use the following code:

  PairWiseDistance(X,D,3); // 3 dimensions for 3 variables

Generated distance matrix has zero diagonal and is always symmetric.

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