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distHellinger

Compute Hellinger distance

Description

The Hellinger distance between the rows of two data matrices are determined or if the second argument is missing between the rows of one data matrix.

Usage

## Default S3 method:
distHellinger(x, y, ...)
## S3 method for class 'simple_triplet_matrix'
distHellinger(x, y, ...)

Arguments

`x`	A data matrix.
`y`	A data matrix.
`...`	Currently not used.

Value

A matrix containing the distances.

Author(s)

Bettina Gruen

topicmodels

Topic Models

v0.2-12

GPL-2

Authors

Bettina Grün [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7265-4773>), Kurt Hornik [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4198-9911>), David M Blei [ctb, cph] (VEM estimation of LDA and CTM), John D Lafferty [ctb, cph] (VEM estimation of CTM), Xuan-Hieu Phan [ctb, cph] (MCMC estimation of LDA), Makoto Matsumoto [ctb, cph] (Mersenne Twister RNG), Takuji Nishimura [ctb, cph] (Mersenne Twister RNG), Shawn Cokus [ctb] (Mersenne Twister RNG)

Initial release