Squared distance measures; Chi-squared and Mahalanobis Distance
Chi-squared and Mahalanobis Distance (Squared standardized distance to mean) 1. Using standardized distance to mean Ø For univariate normal data, you determine whether an observation is likely to belong to a predefined population, according to how many standard deviations (eg. Z-score), it is away from the mean. Ø An observation can be higher or lower than mean. So, standardized distance of an observation, from mean, can be positive or negative value. Ø Likewise for a multinormal distribution, the distance from the mean or center of the measurements can be used to determine likelihood of membership of predefined population. Ø For multivariate data, there is no specific positive or negative direction from center of the multivariate data. Need different metric. 2. Using Squared standardized distance to mean Ø For univariate data , you can calculate squared standardized dista...