RE: [OPE] Mahalanobis and central planning

I had not come accross the Mahalanobis distance, I can see though that it might be very useful in a number of image processing applications. I will check out the link on his planning methods, Thanks for the lead.

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From: ope-bounces@lists.csuchico.edu [ope-bounces@lists.csuchico.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Zachariah [davez@kth.se]
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 4:56 PM
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Subject: Re: [OPE] Mahalanobis and central planning

Paul Cockshott wrote:
> I know nothing about it at all

You probably came across the Mahalanobis distance in your work.
Apparently the same Mahalanobis was also involved in India's five-year
plans. I have not studied what methods were used but Wikipedia gives an
introduction:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahalanobis_model

//Dave Z
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