pseudodistance

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English

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ distance.

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Noun

pseudodistance (plural pseudodistances)

  1. (mathematics) A pseudometric having some characteristics of distance
    • 2015 October 16, “Robust Portfolio Optimization Using Pseudodistances”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      In this paper we present robust estimators of mean and covariance matrix obtained by minimizing an empirical version of a pseudodistance between the assumed model and the true model underlying the data.