A dissimilarity based on relevant population features

In this paper a dissimilarity index between statistical populations is pro-posed without the hypothesis of a specific statistical model. We assume that the studied populations differ on some relevant features which are measured trough convenient parameters of interest. We assume also that we dispose...

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Autores: Cubedo Culleré, Marta, Miñarro Alonso, Antonio, Oller i Sala, Josep Maria
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2013
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:2445/95832
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2445/95832
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Anàlisi espacial (Estadística)
Variables aleatòries
Spatial analysis (Statistics)
Random variables
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Sumario:In this paper a dissimilarity index between statistical populations is pro-posed without the hypothesis of a specific statistical model. We assume that the studied populations differ on some relevant features which are measured trough convenient parameters of interest. We assume also that we dispose of adequate estimators for these parameters. To measure the differences be-tween populations with respect the parameters of interest, we construct an index inspired on some properties of the information metric which are also presented. Additionally, we consider several examples and compare the ob-tained dissimilarity index with some other distances, like Mahalanobis or Siegel distances.