jaccard_distance

jaccard_distance, a Python code which computes the Jaccard distance between two sets.

The Jaccard index of two sets A and B is denoted J(A,B), and is evaluated as |A intersect B| / |A union B|.

The Jaccard distance is 1-J(A,B), which has the usual properties of a distance function.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files described and made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

jaccard_distance is available in a MATLAB version and an Octave version and a Python version.

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python_distance, a Python code which estimates the typical distance between a pair of points randomly selected from the surface or interior of a geometric object such as a circle, disk, sphere, cube, and between other nongeometric pairs of items.

Reference:

1. John D Cook,
   Jaccard index and jazz albums,
   https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2023/07/26/jaccard-jazz/
   Posted 26 July 2023.

Source Code:

• jaccard_distance.py, the source code.
• jaccard_distance.sh, runs all the tests.
• jaccard_distance.txt, the output file.