English Explanatory Dictionary

Hellinger distance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A measure used to quantify the similarity between two probability distributions.

Word forms

Hellinger distance Hellinger distances

Etymology

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

Synonyms

Bhattacharyya distance
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