[R] Mallows' distance or Earth Mover's distance in R?

[Rainer M Krug]

On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Matthias Kohl <Matthias.Kohl at stamats.de> wrote:
> Hi Rainer,
>
> we have not implemented the Mallow's distance so far. Out package distrEx
> includes implementations of the Hellinger, the Kolmogorov, the total
> variation and the Cramer von Mises distance. Combined with our package
> distrMod one can compute minimum distance estimators.

Thanks a lot for this info - I will look into these options.

Rainer

>
> library(distrMod)
> ?MCEstimator
> ?MDEstimator
>
> hth,
> Matthias
>
> Rainer M Krug wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am looking for an implementation (or alternative to) Mallow's
>> distance or the Earth Mover's distance to compare distributions or
>> unnormalized distributions (signatures).
>>
>> Is there an implementation in R or can somebody recommend an alternative?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>>
>>
>
> --
> Dr. Matthias Kohl
> www.stamats.de
>
>



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