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Mahalanobis distance
a measure of the distance between a point and a distribution , introduced by P. C. Mahalanobis in 1933.
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis
Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis OBE, FNA, FASc, FRS (29 June 1893– 28 June 1972) was an Indian scientist and statistician.
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