dist.Symbolic {clusterSim}R Documentation

Calculates distance between symbolic interval-valued data

Description

Calculates distance between symbolic interval-valued data for four distance types

Usage

dist.Symbolic(data,type="U_2",gamma=0.5,power=2)

Arguments

data symbolic data
type type of distance used for symbolic interval-valued data
U_2 - Ichino and Yaguchi distance
M - distance between points given by means of intervals (for interval-values variables)
H - Hausdorff distance
S - sum of distances between all corresponding vertices of hyperrectangles given by symbolic objects with interval-valued variables
gamma parameter for calculating Ichino and Yaguchi distance
power parameter (q) for calculating Ichino and Yaguchi distance

Details

See file $R_HOME\library\clusterSim\pdf\distSymbolic_details.pdf for further details

Author(s)

Marek Walesiak Marek.Walesiak@ae.jgora.pl, Andrzej Dudek Andrzej.Dudek@ae.jgora.pl

Department of Econometrics and Computer Science, University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland http://www.ae.jgora.pl/keii

References

Billard, L., Diday, E. (2006): Symbolic data analysis. Conceptual statistics and data mining, Wiley, Chichester.

See Also

dist.SM

Examples






[Package clusterSim version 0.34-3 Index]