bhattacharyya_mvnorm: Bhattacharyya distance and affinity under multivariate...

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bhattacharyya_mvnormR Documentation

Bhattacharyya distance and affinity under multivariate normality

Description

Estimates means and covariances per category and computes Bhattacharyya distance and affinity (exp(-distance)) under the assumption of multivariate normality.

Usage

bhattacharyya_mvnorm(data, features, category_col, eps = 1e-06)

Arguments

data

Data frame.

features

Character vector of numeric feature columns.

category_col

String; column with exactly two categories.

eps

Small ridge constant added to covariance matrices to improve numerical stability.

Value

A list with distance and affinity (exp(-distance)).


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