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[Solved] Knn Nominal Distance measure type

philophilo Member Posts: 13 Contributor II
edited November 2018 in Help
Hello,
can anyone explain me how the nominal distance measure for k-NN classifier works?
I can not find any documentation.
Is it a string similarity metric?
Thanks.

Answers

  • MariusHelfMariusHelf RapidMiner Certified Expert, Member Posts: 1,869 Unicorn
    The Nominal Distance is 0 for equal strings and 1 for different strings. No magic :)

    Best regards,
    Marius
  • philophilo Member Posts: 13 Contributor II
    Thanks!
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