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Estimating the Mahalanobis distance from mixed continuous and discrete data

Biometrics (2000) 56(2) 394-401
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2000.00394.x
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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.

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Bedrick, E. J., Lapidus, J., & Powell, J. F. (2000). Estimating the Mahalanobis distance from mixed continuous and discrete data. Biometrics, 56(2), 394–401. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0006-341X.2000.00394.x

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