Where - D2 is the square of the Mahalanobis distance. Another example of distance and displacement is illustrated in Figure 12. Look at the picture above boy travels from D to A A to B B to C and C to D.
Lets use our lines endpoints 1 3 and 7 6.
This example Illustrates both the fact that the distances do not have to be whole numbers and that since the horizontal and vertical differences are squared in the formula the order of the numbers is not very important. It is equal to the perimeter of the rectangle. In addition there are just as many tools that you can use. This example Illustrates both the fact that the distances do not have to be whole numbers and that since the horizontal and vertical differences are squared in the formula the order of the numbers is not very important.