Manhattan: Manhattan Distance
In patrickreidy/distdist: Distances on Distributions

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Compute the Manhattan distance between two probability distributions. This distance is also known as the taxicab distance, the city block distance, the rectilinear distance, and the snake distance.

1 2	## S4 method for signature 'Distribution,Distribution' Manhattan(p1, p2)

p1, p2

Distributions.

Let p1 and p2 denote the vectors of probability mass assigned by two distributions defined on the same state space. Then, the Manhattan distance between p1 and p2 is given by sum(abs(p1 - p2)).

The Manhattan distance is equal to the 1-metric. It is also equal to twice the trace distance.

The Manhattan distance between distributions p1 and p2.

p-metric, TotalVariation

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