A distance between multivariate normal distributions based in an embedding into the Siegel group

DOI10.1016/0047-259X(90)90026-EzbMath0719.62062OpenAlexW2037900003MaRDI QIDQ2640280

Miquel Calvo, Josep M. Oller

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Journal of Multivariate Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0047-259x(90)90026-e

zbMATH Keywords

embeddinginformation metricdata analysisprobabilistic modelshypotheses testinggeodesic distanceSiegel metricinformative geometrySiegel geometrymanifold of positive definite matriceslower bound for the Rao distancemanifold of multivariate normal densities

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Global submanifolds (53C40) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10)

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