Mahalanobis distance
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The Mahalanobis distance is a measure of the distance between a point
Mahalanobis distance - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Statistical distance measure The Mahalanobis distance is a measure of the distance between a point P {\displaystyle P} and a probability distribution D {\displaystyle D} , introduced by P. C. Mahalanobis in 1936. [ 1 ] The mathematical details of Mahalanobis distance first appeared in the Journal of The Asiatic Society of Bengal in 1936. [ 2 ] Mahalanobis's definition was prompted by the problem of identifying the similarities of skulls based on measurements (the earliest work related to similarities of skul
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