Der Richtungsabstand. (The direction distance)

DOI10.1007/BF00993343MaRDI QIDQ1802856zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ernst Ruch

Publication date 29 June 1993

Published in Acta Applicandae Mathematicae (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00993343

zbMATH Keywords

distance between directions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General theory of distance geometry (51K05) Affine analytic geometry (51N10)

Review text

The author introduces the concept of a distance between directions (for a nonzero vector \(z\) in a vector space over \(\mathbb{R}\), its direction is defined as \([z]:=\{\mu z|\mu\in\mathbb{R}_{>0}\}\), its unit vector as \(z_ 0:=z/| z|\), and the distance between two directions \([x]\) and \([y]\) is defined to be the function \(d[x/y]\) defined on \(\mathbb{R}_{>0}\times\mathbb{R}_{>0}\) by \(d[x/y](\alpha,\beta):=|\alpha x_ 0-\beta y_ 0|)\), studies its properties and discusses its relevance to statistics.

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