A General Coefficient of Similarity and Some of Its Properties
1971/12/01 by J. C. Gower · 5,293 citations
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Artificial intelligence #Combinatorics #Computer science #Euclidean distance #Euclidean geometry #Face and Expression Recognition #Geometry #Hierarchy #Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques #Mathematics #Neural Networks and Applications #Physics #Pure mathematics #Representation (politics) #Sample (material) #Similarity (geometry) #Statistics
paper · doi:10.2307/2528823
published in Biometrics 27(4), 857 (Oxford University Press)
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