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On The General Distance Measure

  • K. Jajuga
  • M. Walesiak
  • A. Bak
Conference paper
Part of the Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization book series (STUDIES CLASS)

Abstract

In [1993], pp. 44–45 the distance measure was proposed, which can be used for the ordinal data. In the paper the proposal of the general distance measure is given. This measure can be used for data measured in ratio, interval and ordinal scale. The proposal is based on the idea of the generalised correlation coefficient.

Keywords

Distance Measure Ordinal Scale Variable Weighting Multivariate Statistical Analysis Ordinal Data 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • K. Jajuga
    • 1
  • M. Walesiak
    • 1
  • A. Bak
    • 1
  1. 1.Wroclaw University of EconomicsWroclawPoland

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