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Gower’s distance

Gower’s distance is a measure of how different two sets of data are. These datasets can be a combination of logical, categorical, numerical, or textual data. The distance is represented as a number ranging from 0 (indicating identical) to 1 (maximum dissimilarity).

Gower's distance equation

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