Questions tagged [hamming-distance]
the Hamming distance between two strings of equal length is the number of positions at which the corresponding symbols are different.
3 questions
1
vote
0
answers
143
views
How to compare different clustering approaches of categorical data using different similarity measures?
I am working on a project to cluster a dataset containing categorical features. I have tried applying different clustering algorithms like K-modes and HDBSCAN, each using different distance/similarity ...
- 13
0
votes
1
answer
184
views
Hamming distance, ignoring matching 0
I have a dataset with about 800 observations, each with about 2000 boolean variables. I would like to cluster the observations. I am using scipy in Python.
For a (dis)similarity measure I've chosen ...
- 3
1
vote
0
answers
32
views
Comparison of Similarity Measures
Could anyone explain in simple words (and maybe with an example) What are the differences between Hamming Distance, Jaro, and Monge-Elkan in terms of quality data matching through the string ...
- 3,005