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distributions is not as important as the previous discussed
parameters. Several measures can be used, e.g. histogram
intersection, Log-likelihood statistic or G-statistic and chi-
square statistic.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The authors wish to thank Dr. Topi Maenpaa and Dr. Xiangyun
Hu for their valuable comments and discussions.
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