On a transvariation based measure of group separability

Journal of Classification

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 143-167

  Calò, Daniela G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Robustness; Separability measures; Transvariation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746218126     PISSN: 01764268     EISSN: 14321343     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00357-006-0008-0     Document Type: Article

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