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inverse distance

See Also: inverse distance weighted interpolation

  1. [statistics] One divided by distance, often raised to some power (1/D or 1/D2, for example), where D is a distance value. By inverting the distance among spatial features, and using that inverted value as a weight, near things have a larger weight or influence than things that are farther away.