scipy.spatial.distance.

minkowski#

scipy.spatial.distance.minkowski(u, v, p=2, w=None)[source]#

Compute the Minkowski distance between two 1-D arrays.

The Minkowski distance between 1-D arrays u and v, is defined as

uvp=(|uivi|p)1/p.(wi(|(uivi)|p))1/p.
Parameters:
u(N,) array_like

Input array.

v(N,) array_like

Input array.

pscalar

The order of the norm of the difference uvp. Note that for 0<p<1, the triangle inequality only holds with an additional multiplicative factor, i.e. it is only a quasi-metric.

w(N,) array_like, optional

The weights for each value in u and v. Default is None, which gives each value a weight of 1.0

Returns:
minkowskidouble

The Minkowski distance between vectors u and v.

Examples

>>> from scipy.spatial import distance
>>> distance.minkowski([1, 0, 0], [0, 1, 0], 1)
2.0
>>> distance.minkowski([1, 0, 0], [0, 1, 0], 2)
1.4142135623730951
>>> distance.minkowski([1, 0, 0], [0, 1, 0], 3)
1.2599210498948732
>>> distance.minkowski([1, 1, 0], [0, 1, 0], 1)
1.0
>>> distance.minkowski([1, 1, 0], [0, 1, 0], 2)
1.0
>>> distance.minkowski([1, 1, 0], [0, 1, 0], 3)
1.0