How can i measure the distance between points in a scatter graph

Looking to measure the Manhattan distance between the points on my scatter graph

Answer 1

[José-Luis]

pdist() with the 'cityblock' argument should do the trick.

[callum connacher]

I cant seem to get it to work. What I have is a group of 8 points and want to gather a distance matrix for the manhattan distance between them, below is the script i am trying to use, any help?

x = [0, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8];

y = [0, 0, 2, -2, 2, -2, 2, -2];

A= plot(x,y,'bo')

axis([-2,10,-5,5])

labels={'exit','terminal','Gate1','Gate2','Gate3', 'Gate4','Gate 5','Gate6',};

text (x-0.5,y-1,labels,'bottom')

title(' Airport Layout')

D = pdist(A,'cityblock')

[José-Luis]

You are trying to get the distance of a graphic object handle (in your case a line).

Perhaps this is what you meant:

x = [0, 6, 6, 6, 7, 7, 8, 8];
y = [0, 0, 2, -2, 2, -2, 2, -2];
D = pdist([x',y'],'cityblock')

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