skbio.stats.distance.DistanceMatrix.condensed_form¶

DistanceMatrix.condensed_form()[source]¶

Return an array of distances in condensed format.

State: Experimental as of 0.4.0.

Returns

One-dimensional numpy.ndarray of distances in condensed format.

Return type

ndarray

Notes

Condensed format is described in 1.

The conversion is not a constant-time operation, though it should be relatively quick to perform.

References

1

http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/spatial.distance.html