Standard Distance in Univariate and Multivariate Analysis

Authors
Flury, Bernhard K. Riedwyl, Hans
Citation
K. Flury, Bernhard et Riedwyl, Hans, Standard Distance in Univariate and Multivariate Analysis, American statistician , 40(3), 1986, pp. 249-251
Journal title
American statistician → ACNP
ISSN journal
00031305
Volume
40
Issue
3
Year of publication
1986
Pages
249 - 251
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
We propose to use the term standard distance for the quantity in univariate analysis and show that it can be easily generalized to the multivariate situation, where it coincides with the square root of the Mahalanobis distance between two samples.