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# scipy.spatial.distance.rogerstanimoto

`scipy.spatial.distance.``rogerstanimoto`(u, v)

  Computes the Rogers-Tanimoto dissimilarity between two boolean n-vectors `u` and `v`, which is defined as

  where is the number of occurrences of and for and .

  Parameters : | u : ndarray An -dimensional vector. v : ndarray An -dimensional vector.
  Returns : | d : double The Rogers-Tanimoto dissimilarity between vectors u and v.

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