A Mahalanobis-like distance for cylindrical data

Lucio Palazzo, Giovanni Camillo Porzio, Giuseppe Pandolfo
(2019) In: CLADAG 2019 Book of Short Papers, 12-th scientific meeting classification and data analysis. Cassino, Italy. 11-13 September 2019. pp. 382-385, EUC ISBN: 978-88-8317-108-6

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A definition of a density–based distance function for data on the surface of cylinders is introduced. It is able to deal with the correlation structure of cylindrical data.