On distances between point patterns and their applications

Nowadays distance measures techniques have been quickly developed and widely used to the real application. The main objective of this thesis is to make a brief introduction of different distance measures methods, especially spike-time distance and its application to point pattern prototypes and Multi-Dimensional Scaling (MDS) methods. Meantime, R programming packages for spike-time distance, prototype and Multi-Dimensional Scaling have also been introduced in order to make these methods more practical and convenient to the real world. And, their packages are used to a real dataset as an application