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dist.diversity

Distance Diversity between Probability Density Functions

Description

This function computes all distance values between two probability density functions that are available in getDistMethods and returns a vector storing the corresponding distance measures. This vector is named distance diversity vector.

Usage

dist.diversity(x, p, test.na = FALSE, unit = "log2")

Arguments

`x`	a numeric `data.frame` or `matrix` (storing probability vectors) or a numeric `data.frame` or `matrix` storing counts (if `est.prob` is specified).
`p`	power of the Minkowski distance.
`test.na`	a boolean value indicating whether input vectors should be tested for NA values. Faster computations if `test.na = FALSE`.
`unit`	a character string specifying the logarithm unit that should be used to compute distances that depend on log computations. Options are: `unit = "log"` `unit = "log2"` `unit = "log10"`

Author(s)

Hajk-Georg Drost

Examples

dist.diversity(rbind(1:10/sum(1:10), 20:29/sum(20:29)), p = 2, unit = "log2")

philentropy

Similarity and Distance Quantification Between Probability Functions

v0.4.0

GPL-2

Authors

Hajk-Georg Drost [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1567-306X>)

Initial release

2020-01-09