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Measure of distance between distributions or variables, such as Euclidean distance between points in n-space.

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What is the inverse square of a distance (Euclidean)?

wondering what do they mean by "inverse square" the example in the book is: $\text{votes(record)}= \frac{1}{d(a,b)^2} = 1/0.004393^2 \sim 51,818$ so does inverse square just mean diving one by the distance
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