On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Steve Lianoglou <mailinglist.honey...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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
I have read the above links. But I still feel that a book might explain it in a more complete fashion. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.