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Bhattacharyya Distance

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In statistics, the Bhattacharyya distance is a quantity representing a notion of similarity between two probability distributions. It is closely related to the Bhattacharyya coefficient, a measure of the amount of overlap between two statistical samples or populations. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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    In statistics, the Bhattacharyya distance is a quantity which represents a notion of similarity between two probability distributions.
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    In statistics, the Bhattacharyya distance is a quantity which represents a notion of similarity between two probability distributi
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known as the Bhattacharyya coefficient, based on which he defined a metric, the Bhattacharyya distance
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