Hellinger distance

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English

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Etymology

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It is defined in terms of the Hellinger integral, introduced by Ernst Hellinger in 1909.

Noun

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Hellinger distance (countable and uncountable, plural Hellinger distances)

  1. (probability, statistics) A measure used to quantify the similarity between two probability distributions.

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