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

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2013-11575-3MaRDI QIDQ2845477zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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