The Mahalanobis distance

✍ Scribed by R. De Maesschalck; D. Jouan-Rimbaud; D.L. Massart

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 251 KB
• Volume: 50
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0169-7439
• DOI: 10.1016/s0169-7439(99)00047-7

✦ Synopsis

The theory of many multivariate chemometrical methods is based on the measurement of distances. The Mahalanobis Ž . Ž . distance MD , in the original and principal component PC space, will be examined and interpreted in relation with the Ž . Euclidean distance ED . Techniques based on the MD and applied in different fields of chemometrics such as in multivariate calibration, pattern recognition and process control are explained and discussed.