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Abstract We review the notion of a quasi-copula and using quasi-copulas we induce in [0,1] some large families of metrics which show to have some interesting probabilistic interpretations.
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Alsina, C. (2002). On Quasi-Copulas and Metrics. In: Cuadras, C.M., Fortiana, J., Rodriguez-Lallena, J.A. (eds) Distributions With Given Marginals and Statistical Modelling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0061-0_1
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