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Pinguicula
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« on: July 24, 2008, 12:44:56 PM »
Hi,

Rapidminer offers  "mixed Euclidean Distance" (MED) as distance measure. In contrast to the other distance measures
I can not find MED as technical term in the text books and internet ressources available to me. I' d like to ask where I can find a reference which explains the computaion of this metric. Or does it refer to Euclidean Distance for datasets with mixed discrete and continuous variables?

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Norbert
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steffen
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« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2008, 02:43:52 PM »
Yes !

Quote the Java class:
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Euclidean distance for numerical and nominal values. For nomimal values, a distance of one is accounted if both values are not the same.
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