scipy.spatial.distance.cosine

scipy.spatial.distance.cosine(u, v)[source]

Computes the Cosine distance between two n-vectors u and v, which is defined as

1 - \frac{u \cdot v}
         {||u||_2 ||v||_2}.

where u \cdot v is the dot product of u and v.

Parameters :

u : ndarray

An n-dimensional vector.

v : ndarray

An n-dimensional vector.

Returns :

d : double

The Cosine distance between vectors u and v.

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