Estimating the Mahalanobis distance from mixed continuous and discrete data

Edward J. Bedrick; Jodi Lapidus; Joseph F. Powell

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Estimating the Mahalanobis distance from mixed continuous and discrete data

Edward J. Bedrick, Jodi Lapidus, Joseph F. Powell

School Of Public Health

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Abstract

We present a method for estimating the Mahalanobis distance between two multivariate normal populations when a subset of the measurements is observed as ordered categorical responses. Asymptotic properties of the proposed estimator are developed. Two examples are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	394-401
Number of pages	8
Journal	Biometrics
Volume	56
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0006-341X.2000.00394.x
State	Published - Jun 2000

Keywords

Discriminant analysis
Distance between populations
Multidimensional scaling
Multivariate probit model

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Statistics and Probability
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
Immunology and Microbiology(all)
Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
Applied Mathematics

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