Gini diversity index, Hamming distance, and curse of dimensionality

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Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 329-349

  Sen, Pranab K ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

ANOVA decomposability; Diversity analysis; Multi dimensional categorical data models; Qualitative traits

Indexed keywords

EID: 51749101834     PISSN: 00261424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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