title: Estimating the Mahalanobis distance from mixed continuous and discrete data.
abstract: We present a method for estimating the Mahalanobis distance between two multivariate normal populations when a subset of the measurements is observed as ordered categorical responses. Asymptotic properties of the proposed estimator are developed. Two examples are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA. bedrick@stat.unm.edu
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Bedrick
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lapidus
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Powell
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001699:Biometry / Q000379:methods*; D016002:Discriminant Analysis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D010161:Paleodontology; D011784:Quail; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal; D012919:Social Behavior