Generalization of the mahalanobis distance in the mixed case

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 332-342

  Bar Hen, Avner ^a   Daudin, J J ^b  

^a Geves La Minière ^*  (France)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Discrimination with discrete and continuous variables; Kullback Leibler divergence; Location model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001549192     PISSN: 0047259X     EISSN: 10957243     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmva.1995.1040     Document Type: Article

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