elbow_detection: A elbow detection function

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Description

A elbow detection function detects the elbow/knee of a given vector of values. Values will be sorted descendingly before detection, and the ID of those values above the elbow will be returned.

Usage

elbow_detection(scores, if_plot = FALSE)

Arguments

scores	A vector of numeric scores.
if_plot	Boolean determine if plot the results.

Value

a vector of selected elements IDs

Examples

scores <- c(10, 9 ,8, 6, 3, 2, 1, 0.1)
elbow_detection(scores, if_plot = TRUE)

Example output

Loading required package: tcltk
Warning message:
no DISPLAY variable so Tk is not available 
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