@article{epos1372, volume = {1}, number = {4}, author = {Sung-Hyuk Cha}, title = {Comprehensive Survey on Distance/Similarity Measures between Probability Density Functions}, publisher = {World Scientific Publishing}, journal = {International Journal of Mathematical models and Methods in Applied Sciences}, pages = {300--307}, year = {2007}, keywords = {Distance, Histogram, Probability Density Function, Similarity}, url = {https://episodesplatform.eu/eprints/1372/}, abstract = {Distance or similarity measures are essential to solve many pattern recognition problems such as classification, clustering, and retrieval problems. Various distance/similarity measures that are applicable to compare two probability density functions, pdf in short, are reviewed and categorized in both syntactic and semantic relationships. A correlation coefficient and a hierarchical clustering technique are adopted to reveal similarities among numerous distance/similarity measures.} }