The Canberra distance is a numerical measure of the distance between pairs of points in a vector space, introduced in 1966[1] and refined in 1967[2] by G. N. Lance and W. T. Williams. It is similar to the Manhattan distance. It is mostly used for data scattered around the origin.
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The Canberra distance, , between two vectors in an n-dimensional real vector space is given as follows:
where
are vectors.