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@ue.wroc.pl, Andrzej Dudek andrzej.dudek@ue.wroc.pl

Department of Econometrics and Computer Science, University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland http://keii.ue.wroc.pl/clusterSim

References

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

See Also

dist.SM

Examples

library(clusterSim)
dataSymbolic<-cluster.Gen(numObjects=10,model=5,dataType="s")$data
print(dist.Symbolic(dataSymbolic))

[Package clusterSim version 0.36-4 Index]