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Minimum distance
The term minimum distance may refer to * Minimum distance estimation, a statistical method for fitting a model to data * Closest pair of points problem, the algorithmic problem of finding two points that have the minimum distance among a larger set of points * Euclidean distance, the minimum length of any curve between two points in the plane * Shortest path problem, the minimum length of a path between two points in a graph * The minimum distance of a block code in coding theory, the smallest Hamming distance between any two of its code words
Article summary
The term minimum distance may refer to * Minimum distance estimation, a statistical method for fitting a model to data * Closest pair of points problem, the algorithmic problem of finding two points that have the minimum distance among a larger set of points * Euclidean distance, the minimum length of any curve between two points in the plane * Shortest path problem, the minimum length of a path between two points in a graph * The minimum distance of a block code in coding theory, the smallest Hamming distance between any two of its code words
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