Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
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KEY TERMS AND DEFINITIONS
Copula:
Distributions on probability integral
transforms.
Component Analysis:
Orthogonal basis data
mining procedure.
Mutual Information:
Special case of Kull-
back-Liebler divergence between independence
and dependence.
Kullback-Liebler Divergence:
Probability
metric distance.
Environmental Index:
Usually affine trans-
formation of environmental data.
Index:
Usually affine transformation of mul-
tivariate vector to scalar quantity.
Non-Gaussian:
Non Normally distributed.
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