Essays about: "chi-squared distance"

Found 2 essays containing the words chi-squared distance.

1. 1. Benford’s Law: Analysis of the trustworthiness of COVID-19 reporting in the context of different political regimes

   University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

   Author : Leonid Burlac; Nikolaos Giannakis; [2021]
   Keywords : Benford s law; Covid-19; Chi-square; MAD; distribution distance;

   Abstract : In order for governments and demographers to, among other things, design policies and pensionplans, as well as for insurance companies to offer policies that serve general public, having reliable mortality data plays a crucial role. The academic world works actively in developing tools (models and methods) that can, based on collected mortality data, forecast future death rates in the observed population. READ MORE

3. 2. Evaluation of scoring index with different normalization and distance measure with correspondence analysis

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statistiska institutionen

   Author : Anders Nilsson; [2010]
   Keywords : Correspondence analysis; Bootstrap; normalization; chi-squared distance; euclidean distance; Mathematics and Statistics; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to analyze data for a scoring system and evaluate different normalization procedures and distance measures for correspondence analysis. When bootstrapping 100 samples and evaluating coordinates for the row and column profiles the results show that the representation of the coordinates for the row and column profiles are similar when looking at the normalizations methods separately. READ MORE