| Dissimilarity measure | Property | |||||
| Equality | Orthogonality | Symmetry | Outlier | Noise | Mode | |
| SE | - | x | x | - | - | - |
| wSE | - | - | x | - | - | - |
| JS | x | - | x | - | - | - |
| Err | x | x | x | - | - | x |
| Bhat | x | x | x | x | - | x |
| KLdiv | x | x | x | x | - | x |
| KLinf | x | x | x | x | x | x |