Estimating the Mahalanobis distance from mixed continuous and discrete data

Biometrics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 394-401

  Bedrick, Edward J ^a   Lapidus, Jodi ^b   Powell, Joseph F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Distance between populations; Multidimensional scaling; Multivariate probit model

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC PROPERTIES; CONTINUOUS DATA; DISCRETE DATA; DISTANCE BETWEEN POPULATION; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCES; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; MULTIVARIATE NORMAL; MULTIVARIATE PROBIT; MULTIVARIATE PROBIT MODEL; PROBIT MODELS;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033933589     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2000.00394.x     Document Type: Article

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