• DocumentCode
    1299554
  • Title

    Moments of the interclass Mahalanobis distance

  • Author

    Gonzalez, R.C. ; Wagner, C.G.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electrical Engng., Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
  • Issue
    6
  • fYear
    1983
  • Firstpage
    1135
  • Lastpage
    1139
  • Abstract
    It is shown that the moments of the interclass Mahalanobis distance between elements of two d-variate Gaussian populations can be expressed in a simple polynomial form. The nth moment is expressible as a polynomial of order n whose variable depends on the mean vectors and eigenvalues of the covariance matrices. A closed-form solution is given for computing the coefficients of the polynomial expressions.
  • Keywords
    pattern recognition; picture processing; polynomials; d-variate Gaussian populations; interclass Mahalanobis distance; moments; pattern recognition; picture processing; polynomial; Covariance matrix; Discrete Fourier transforms; Educational institutions; Sociology; Vectors; Vehicles;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Systems, Man and Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9472
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TSMC.1983.6313189
  • Filename
    6313189