Pseudodistance

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Noun
  1. 1
    A pseudometric having some characteristics of distance

    "In this paper we present robust estimators of mean and covariance matrix obtained by minimizing an empirical version of a pseudodistance between the assumed model and the true model underlying the data."

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"In this paper we present robust estimators of mean and covariance matrix obtained by minimizing an empirical version of a pseudodistance between the assumed model and the true model underlying the data."

Etymology

From pseudo- + distance.

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