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# scipy.spatial.distance.braycurtis

scipy.spatial.distance.braycurtis(u, v, w=None)

  Compute the Bray-Curtis distance between two 1-D arrays.

  Bray-Curtis distance is defined as

  \[\sum{|u_i-v_i|} / \sum{|u_i+v_i|}\]

  The Bray-Curtis distance is in the range [0, 1] if all coordinates are positive, and is undefined if the inputs are of length zero.

  Parameters:
    u(N,) array_like

      Input array.

    v(N,) array_like

      Input array.

    w(N,) array_like, optional

      The weights for each value in u and v. Default is None, which gives each value a weight of 1.0

  Returns:
    braycurtis double

      The Bray-Curtis distance between 1-D arrays u and v.

  Examples

      >>> from scipy.spatial import distance
      >>> distance.braycurtis([1, 0, 0], [0, 1, 0])
      1.0
      >>> distance.braycurtis([1, 1, 0], [0, 1, 0])
      0.33333333333333331