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  2. Gower's distance - Wikipedia

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    Data can be binary, ordinal, or continuous variables. It works by normalizing the differences between each pair of variables and then computing a weighted average of these differences. The distance was defined in 1971 by Gower [1] and it takes values between 0 and 1 with smaller values indicating higher similarity.

  3. Inverse-variance weighting - Wikipedia

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    The inverse-variance weighted average has the least variance among all weighted averages, which can be calculated as (^) = /. If the variances of the measurements are all equal, then the inverse-variance weighted average becomes the simple average. Inverse-variance weighting is typically used in statistical meta-analysis or sensor fusion to ...

  4. Inverse distance weighting - Wikipedia

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    This method can also be used to create spatial weights matrices in spatial autocorrelation analyses (e.g. Moran's I). [1] The name given to this type of method was motivated by the weighted average applied, since it resorts to the inverse of the distance to each known point ("amount of proximity") when assigning weights.

  5. Weight function - Wikipedia

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    A weight function is a mathematical device used when performing a sum, integral, or average to give some elements more "weight" or influence on the result than other elements in the same set. The result of this application of a weight function is a weighted sum or weighted average .

  6. Weighted arithmetic mean - Wikipedia

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    The weighted arithmetic mean is similar to an ordinary arithmetic mean (the most common type of average), except that instead of each of the data points contributing equally to the final average, some data points contribute more than others.

  7. Weighted geometric mean - Wikipedia

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    The second form above illustrates that the logarithm of the geometric mean is the weighted arithmetic mean of the logarithms of the individual values. If all the weights are equal, the weighted geometric mean simplifies to the ordinary unweighted geometric mean. [1]

  8. Linear interpolation - Wikipedia

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    Outside this interval, the formula is identical to linear extrapolation. This formula can also be understood as a weighted average. The weights are inversely related to the distance from the end points to the unknown point; the closer point has more influence than the farther point.

  9. Inverse probability weighting - Wikipedia

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    One very early weighted estimator is the Horvitz–Thompson estimator of the mean. [3] When the sampling probability is known, from which the sampling population is drawn from the target population, then the inverse of this probability is used to weight the observations. This approach has been generalized to many aspects of statistics under ...