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

Notes

Condensed format is described in [R69].

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

References

[R69]

(1, 2) http://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/spatial.distance.html