Hi,
On Oct 23, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Peng Yu wrote:
The help on mahalanobis {stats} does not include any reference. I'm
interested in understand why Mahalanobis is defined in its current way
and how to use it. Could somebody point me a good book on this? I have
looked through a few books, but they all give very light explanation
on it.
The wikipedia page looks pretty good ... the "Intuitive Explanation"
section should help:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalanobis_distance
Googling also provides many more explanations:
http://matlabdatamining.blogspot.com/2006/11/mahalanobis-distance.html
HTH,
-steve
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