Goweravstand
Goweravstand is a Swedish term that translates to "Gower distance" in English. It is a measure of the distance between two probability distributions, often used in statistics and machine learning. The Gower distance is a dissimilarity measure that can handle mixed data types, including numerical, nominal, and ordinal data. It is particularly useful when dealing with datasets that contain a mix of these data types, as it can provide a single distance metric that takes into account the different types of variables.
The Gower distance was introduced by British statistician Alan Gower in 1971. It is an extension of
The Gower distance is calculated by first standardizing each variable to have a range of 0 to