AnthropMMD-package: An R package for the Mean Measure of Divergence (MMD)

In AnthropMMD: An R Package for the Mean Measure of Divergence (MMD)

An R package for the Mean Measure of Divergence (MMD)

Description

Offers a graphical user interface for the calculation of the mean measure of divergence, with facilities for trait selection and graphical representations.

Details

Package:	AnthropMMD
Type:	Package
Version:	4.0.0
License:	CeCILL 2.1

Author(s)

Frédéric Santos, [e-mail]

References

Harris, E. F. and Sjøvold, T. (2004) Calculation of Smith's mean measure of divergence for intergroup comparisons using nonmetric data. Dental Anthropology, 17(3), 83–93.

Irish, J. (2010) The mean measure of divergence: Its utility in model-free and model-bound analyses relative to the Mahalanobis D2 distance for nonmetric traits. American Journal of Human Biology, 22, 378–395. doi: 10.1002/ajhb.21010

Nikita, E. (2015) A critical review of the mean measure of divergence and Mahalanobis distances using artificial data and new approaches to the estimation of biodistances employing nonmetric traits. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 157, 284–294. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22708

Santos, F. (2018) AnthropMMD: an R package with a graphical user interface for the mean measure of divergence. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 165(1), 200–205. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23336

Examples

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