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	Dissimilarité de Bray-Curtis	Distance de Canberra	Coefficient de Sorensen-Dice
Domaine	Prise de décision	Prise de décision	Prise de décision
Famille	MCDM	MCDM	MCDM
Année d'origine	1957	1967	1945
Auteur d'origine	John Bray and John T. Curtis	Geoffrey Lance and William Williams	Thorvald Sorensen and Lee Dice
Type	Ecological community similarity measure	Normalized city-block distance	Binary and compositional similarity measure
Source fondatrice	Bray, J. R., & Curtis, J. T. (1957). An ordination of the upland forest communities of southern Wisconsin. Ecological Monographs, 27(4), 325-349.	Lance, G. N., & Williams, W. T. (1967). A general theory of classificatory sorting strategies. Computer Journal, 10(3), 271-277.	Sorensen, T. (1948). A method of establishing groups of equal amplitude in plant sociology based on similarity of species content and its application to analyses of the vegetation on Danish commons. Biologiske Skrifter, 5, 1-34.
Alias	Bray-Curtis index, Sorensen-Bray-Curtis, percentage difference	Canberra metric, normalized Manhattan distance	Dice coefficient, Czekanowski index, F1 similarity
Apparentées	3	1	1
Résumé	Bray-Curtis dissimilarity is a quantitative measure of compositional difference between two samples, widely used in ecology and community analysis. Introduced by John Bray and John T. Curtis in 1957 for comparing forest communities, this index ranges from 0 (identical composition) to 1 (completely different). It is sensitive to abundance differences and is particularly effective for abundance data such as species counts, microbial populations, or preference intensities.	Canberra distance is a weighted version of the Manhattan distance that normalizes differences by the sum of absolute values. Introduced by Geoffrey Lance and William Williams in 1967 as part of their work on clustering classification methods, this metric emphasizes differences in small values and is sensitive to changes in relative proportions. It is commonly used in taxonomy, ecology, decision-making, and any application where normalized relative differences matter.	Sorensen-Dice coefficient, also called Dice coefficient or Czekanowski index, measures the similarity between two sets or samples based on presence and absence of attributes. Introduced independently by Thorvald Sorensen (1948) and Lee Dice (1945), this index ranges from 0 (completely dissimilar) to 1 (identical). It is particularly well-suited for binary presence-absence data and is the symmetric counterpart to the Bray-Curtis dissimilarity for abundance data.