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On measures of similarity and distances between objects

V. K. Leont'ev

Dorodnitsyn Computing Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Vavilova 40, Moscow, 119333, Russia

Abstract: Various metrics and functions of metrics are examined. A number of results concerning the identification of similarities and distinctions between objects are presented for different measurement techniques.

Key words: measures of similarity, distance between objects, Hausdorff measure, Hamming distance, Levenshtein distance, separation metric, proximity function, graphs, Boolean functions.

UDC: 519.71

Received: 23.03.2009

 English version: Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Physics, 2009, 49:11, 1949–1965

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