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Jensen-Shannon distances
Kullback-Leibler divergence between two densities
D(p, q) =
∞
∞
p(x) log
p(x)
q(x)
dx
Not symmetric: D(p, q) = D(q, p)
Jensen-Shannon distance between two densities
JS(p, q) = [D(p, r) + D(q, r)]/2 where r = (p + q)/2
Distance between two households
∆ij =
7×48
t=1
JS(pt
, qt)
14