Comparative study of probability distribution distances to define a metric for the stability of multi-source biomedical research data

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 3226-3229

  Saez, Carlos ^a   Robles, Montserrat ^a   Garcia Gomez, Juan Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL DATA; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EARTH MOVER'S DISTANCE; GENERAL STABILITIES; MULTIPLE SOURCE; OVERALL QUALITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION (PDF);

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

FACTUAL DATABASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATABASES, FACTUAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84886484828     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2013.6610228     Document Type: Conference Paper

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