Talk:String metric

wrong russian interwiki — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.174.9.21 (talk) 20:45, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

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Merge?
Merge with word metric and/or edit distance? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.40.48.159 (talk) 00:47, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Variational distance
There is a red wikilink to Variational distance in the version from 22 February 2021:
 * Special:PermanentLink/1008269750

The name can be found as an alternative to Total variation distance of probability measures.

That, however, is much more general, and can be considered a 'string metric' for finite probability spaces only, where the probability distribution can be described as a finite sequence (a string) of probabilities of every specific event.

So, here my question comes: am I right in identifying 'Variational distance' with 'Total variation distance of probability measures'? If so, I'm going to create an appropriate redirect.

Anyway, due to the generality of the target notion the link seems not appropriate here (unless an explanation is added to it). Should it be kept here?

CiaPan (talk) 11:06, 4 March 2021 (UTC)