RaoDist: Riemannian Distance

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References

View source: R/RaoDist.R

Description

This function computes the square Riemannian distance between two matrices with the Rao-Fisher metric.

Usage

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RaoDist(m1,m2)

Arguments

m1, m2

numeric matrices.

Details

The distance is computed with the use of the spectral decomposition.

Value

It returns a numeric value, the square Riemannian distance.

Author(s)

Laura Masiero, email: laura.masiero.10@gmail.com

References

Moakher, Maher (2005). "A differential geometric approach to the geometric mean of symmetric positive-definite matrices". In: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications 26.3, pp. 735–747. doi: 10.1137/S0895479803436937.

Said, Salem, Lionel Bombrun, Yannick Berthoumieu e Jonathan Manton (2015). "Riemannian Gaussian Distributions on the Space of Symmetric Positive Definite Matrices". In: arXiv: 1507 . 01760. url: http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.01760.


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