nessai.utils.distance

Utilities for computing distances.

Module Contents

Functions

compute_minimum_distances(samples[, metric])

Compute the distance to the nearest neighbour of each sample

nessai.utils.distance.compute_minimum_distances(samples, metric='euclidean')

Compute the distance to the nearest neighbour of each sample

Parameters:
samplesarray_like

Array of samples.

metricstr, optional

Metric to use. See scipy docs for list of metrics: https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.spatial.distance.cdist.html

Returns:
array_like

Distance to nearest neighbour for each sample.