Timeline for Distance metric between two sample distributions (histograms)
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| Aug 17, 2012 at 11:08 | comment | added | Stéphane Laurent | The transportation metric is not a complete answer, because this distance between probability measures is induced by a distance on the real numbers, hence you firstly have to choose this later distance (the fact that different standard distance on $\mathbb{R}$ lead to the same topology has no interest in some applied mathematical problems) | |
| Jul 27, 2012 at 19:49 | vote | accept | Marc Kjerland | ||
| Jul 27, 2012 at 19:49 | comment | added | Marc Kjerland | This was a very insightful and useful answer. Thank you! | |
| Jul 26, 2012 at 15:20 | history | answered | R W | CC BY-SA 3.0 |