How should we find distances when dealing with unknowns????

[uday]

How shall we find the distance between

1)two unknowns in numeric columns
2)two unknowns in non-numeric columns
3)known and unknown in numeric columns
4)known and unknown in non-numeric columns

[Tim Menzies]

good questions!

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 4:35 AM, uday <paraud...@gmail.com> wrote:

How shall we find the distance between

1)two unknowns in numeric columns

policy 1: distance = 0.5
policy 2: distance = random number 0..1
 

2)two unknowns in non-numeric columns

policy 1 or
policy 2
 

3)known and unknown in numeric columns

policy 1 or
policy 2
 

4)known and unknown in non-numeric columns

policy 1 or
policy 2
 

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