5.6.1.21. scipy.spatial.distance.minkowski¶

scipy.spatial.distance.minkowski(u, v, p)[source]¶

Computes the Minkowski distance between two 1-D arrays.

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

$${||u-v||}_p = (\sum{|u_i - v_i|^p})^{1/p}.$$

Parameters:	u : (N,) array_like Input array. v : (N,) array_like Input array. p : int The order of the norm of the difference ${||u-v||}_p$.
Returns:	d : double The Minkowski distance between vectors u and v.