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# scipy.spatial.distance.matching

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

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

  where is the number of occurrences of and for .

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

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