elaborator_calculate_spearman_distance: Calculates the distance matrix based on Spearman's...

In elaborator: A 'shiny' Application for Exploring Laboratory Data

Description

This function derives the Spearman correlation coefficients for a data matrix and transforms the resulting similarity matrix into a distance/dissimilarity matrix. No difference is made between positive and negative correlations, i.e., correlations of -1 and 1 will be transformed to a distance of 0; correlations of 0 will be transformed to a distance of 1. Missing values in the input data will be handled by casewise deletion.

Usage

elaborator_calculate_spearman_distance(x)

Arguments

x	data matrix for which a distance matrix based on the Spearman correlation coefficient is calculated

Value

A distance matrix of class "dist", which can be used for example for a seriation algorithm

elaborator documentation built on Feb. 23, 2021, 1:06 a.m.