Re: [R] Bhattacharyya distance metric

The Bhattacharyya distance is different from the Mahalanobis distance. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhattacharyya_distance There is also the Hellinger Distance and the Rao distance. For the Rao distance, see: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Fisher-Rao_metric Jude __

Re: [R] Bhattacharyya distance metric

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 12:25 -0800, Diana Garrett wrote: > I need to use the Bhattacharyya distance metric to determine population > separation. Has anyone written a Bhattacharyya distance metric function in > R? Something like this ( I think it's correct ): --%<--- DBhat <- function(X1,X2){ # def

[R] Bhattacharyya distance metric

I need to use the Bhattacharyya distance metric to determine population separation. Has anyone written a Bhattacharyya distance metric function in R? -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Bhattacharyya-distance-metric-tp26221259p26221259.html Sent from the R help mailing list ar