A contribution to the study of the metric and Euclidean structures of dissimilarities

Psychometrika

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 241-253

  Caillez, Francis ^b   Kuntz, Pascale ^a  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE NANTES   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Dissimilarity; Euclidean representation; Metric; Metric transformations; Positive semidefinite matrices

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030495433     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02294337     Document Type: Article

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