Lp/Minkowski Distance Metric
- is a distance metric (𝑑) defined as 𝑑(𝑢̅,𝑣̅) = 𝐿𝑝 = ||𝑢̅-𝑣̅||𝑝 = [ 𝛴1≤𝑖≤𝑛|𝑢̅𝑖-𝑣̅𝑖|𝑝 ](1/𝑝) where 𝑢̅,𝑣̅are vectors in ℝ𝑛
- can be considered as a generalization of both the Euclidean distance and the Manhattan distance
- utilizes the Lp Norm function