Order-distance and other metric-like functions on jointly distributed random variables

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2013-11575-3zbMATH Open1282.60009arXiv1110.1228WikidataQ110214032 ScholiaQ110214032MaRDI QIDQ2845477FDOQ2845477

Authors: Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov, Janne V. Kujala 

Publication date: 30 August 2013

Published in: Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct a class of real-valued nonnegative binary functions on a set of jointly distributed random variables, which satisfy the triangle inequality and vanish at identical arguments (pseudo-quasi-metrics). These functions are useful in dealing with the problem of selective probabilistic causality encountered in behavioral sciences and in quantum physics. The problem reduces to that of ascertaining the existence of a joint distribution for a set of variables with known distributions of certain subsets of this set. Any violation of the triangle inequality or its consequences by one of our functions when applied to such a set rules out the existence of this joint distribution. We focus on an especially versatile and widely applicable pseudo-quasi-metric called an order-distance and its special case called a classification distance.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1110.1228

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zbMATH Keywords

EPR paradigmprobabilistic causalityselective influencesBell-CHSH-Fine inequalityorder-distancespseudo-quasi-metrics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measurement and performance in psychology (91E45) Probability theory on algebraic and topological structures (60B99) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13) General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory (81Q99)

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