Mixed Euclidean Distance (Distance Metrics)

Hi,

Rapidminer offers "mixed Euclidean Distance" (MED) as distance measure. In contrast to the other distance measures
I can not find MED as technical term in the text books and internet ressources available to me. I' d like to ask where I can find a reference which explains the computaion of this metric. Or does it refer to Euclidean Distance for datasets with mixed discrete and continuous variables?

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Norbert

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steffen

Yes !

Quote the Java class:

Euclidean distance for numerical and nominal values. For nomimal values, a distance of one is accounted if both values are not the same.

kostanski

It is worth quota the full comment in the code of this class:

Euclidean distance for numerical and nominal values. For nomimal values, a distance of one is accounted if both values are not the same. Note: In most cases, you must normalize the numerical values, to obtain sound results.

So I understand, that it DOES NOT calculate normalized distance by default. If I am wrong, let me know.

MariusHelf

You are right.
Almost all distance measures do not normalize the data automatically.

Best regards,
Marius