afc.dd: 2AFC For Dichotomous Observations And Dichotomous Forecasts

In afc: Generalized Discrimination Score

2AFC For Dichotomous Observations And Dichotomous Forecasts

Description

Routine to calculate the Generalized Discrimination Score (aka Two-Alternatives Forced Choice Score 2AFC) for the situation of dichotomous observations and dichotomous forecasts

Usage

afc.dd(obsv, fcst, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

obsv	vector with dichotomous observations (values in {0,1})
fcst	vector of same length as obsv with dichotomous forecasts (values in {0,1})
na.rm	logical; if TRUE pairs where obsv or fcst is NA are removed before scoring. Default FALSE returns NA if any input contains NA.

Details

This routine applies Eq.2 of Mason and Weigel (2009) to calculate the 2AFC.

Value

p.afc

Value of Generalized Discrimination (2AFC) Score

Author(s)

Andreas Weigel, Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, Zurich, Switzerland

References

S.J. Mason and A.P. Weigel, 2009. A generic verification framework for administrative purposes. Mon. Wea. Rev., 137, 331-349

See Also

afc

Examples

  data(cnrm.nino34.dd)
  obsv = cnrm.nino34.dd$obsv
  fcst = cnrm.nino34.dd$fcst
  afc.dd(obsv,fcst)

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