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scipy.spatial.distance.hamming

scipy.spatial.distance.hamming(u, v)

Computes the Hamming distance between two n-vectors u and v, which is simply the proportion of disagreeing components in u and v. If u and v are boolean vectors, the Hamming distance is

where is the number of occurrences of and for .

Parameters :

u : ndarray

An -dimensional vector.

v : ndarray

An -dimensional vector.

Returns :

d : double

The Hamming distance between vectors u and v.