# distsd: Calculates the distance standard deviation... In dcortools: Providing Fast and Flexible Functions for Distance Correlation Analysis

 distsd R Documentation

## Calculates the distance standard deviation \insertCiteedelmann2017distancedcortools.

### Description

Calculates the distance standard deviation \insertCiteedelmann2017distancedcortools.

### Usage

```distsd(
X,
affine = FALSE,
standardize = FALSE,
bias.corr = FALSE,
type.X = "sample",
metr.X = "euclidean",
use = "all",
algorithm = "auto"
)
```

### Arguments

 `X` contains either the sample or its corresponding distance matrix. In the first case, X can be provided either as a vector (if one-dimensional), a matrix or a data.frame (if two-dimensional or higher). In the second case, the input must be a distance matrix corresponding to the sample of interest. If X is a sample, type.X must be specified as "sample". If X is a distance matrix, type.X must be specified as "distance". `affine` logical; specifies if the affinely invariant distance standard deviation \insertCitedueck2014affinelydcortools should be calculated or not. `standardize` logical; specifies if X and Y should be standardized dividing each component by its standard deviations. No effect when affine = TRUE. `bias.corr` logical; specifies if the bias corrected version of the sample distance standard deviation \insertCitehuo2016fastdcortools should be calculated. `type.X` For "distance", X is interpreted as a distance matrix. For "sample", X is interpreted as a sample. `metr.X` specifies the metric which should be used to compute the distance matrix for X (ignored when type.X = "distance"). Options are "euclidean", "discrete", "alpha", "minkowski", "gaussian", "gaussauto", "boundsq" or user-specified metrics (see examples). For "alpha", "minkowski", "gaussian", "gaussauto" and "boundsq", the corresponding parameters are specified via "c(metric, parameter)", e.g. c("gaussian", 3) for a Gaussian metric with bandwidth parameter 3; the default parameter is 2 for "minkowski" and "1" for all other metrics. See \insertCitelyons2013distance,sejdinovic2013equivalence,bottcher2017detecting;textualdcortools for details. `use` specifies how to treat missing values. "complete.obs" excludes observations containing NAs, "all" uses all observations. `algorithm` specifies the algorithm used for calculating the distance standard deviation. "fast" uses an O(n log n) algorithm if the observations are one-dimensional and metr.X and metr.Y are either "euclidean" or "discrete", see also \insertCitehuo2016fast;textualdcortools. "memsave" uses a memory saving version of the standard algorithm with computational complexity O(n^2) but requiring only O(n) memory. "standard" uses the classical algorithm. User-specified metrics always use the classical algorithm. "auto" chooses the best algorithm for the specific setting using a rule of thumb.

### Value

numeric; the distance standard deviation of X.

### References

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bottcher2017detectingdcortools

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dueck2014affinelydcortools

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edelmann2017distancedcortools

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huo2016fastdcortools

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lyons2013distancedcortools

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sejdinovic2013equivalencedcortools

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szekely2007dcortools

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szekely2009browniandcortools

### Examples

```X <- rnorm(100)
distsd(X) # for more examples on the options see the documentation of distcov.
```

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