JRsMahaldist: Compute Mahalanobis distance

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Compute Mahalanobis distance

Description

Computes Mahalanobis distance according to Section 2.5.1 in Jouan-Rimbaud et al (1998). The distance takes into account both the distance between the centroids of two data sets, as well as the dispersion of the data around these centroids. This function is used by the function jrparams() to assess representativity of two multidimensional data sets.

Usage

JRsMahaldist(DATA)

Arguments

DATA

Matrix containing the weighted scores on the principal components (PCs) that have been computed for the two data sets to be compared. The first column of this matrix should contain a group indicator variable, which has a value equal to 1 for the first data set and a value equal to 2 for the second data set. The remaining columns contain the weighted PC scores for the two data sets.

Value

A list type object containing one field named "Ds", a 1*1 matrix type object whose only element has the value of the Mahalanobis distance.

Note

The Mahalanobis distance is computed using the pooled variance-covariance matrix as defined in Section 2.4 of Jouan-Rimbaud et al (1998), and hence may differ somewhat from a 'regular' Mahalanobis distance as computed using e.g. the function mahalanobis() from the 'stats' package.

Author(s)

Harmen Draisma

References

Section 2.5.1 in: Jouan-Rimbaud D, Massart DL, Saby CA, Puel C: Determination of the representativity between two multidimensional data sets by a comparison of their structure. Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems 40 (1998) 129-144.

See Also

jrparams(); MBoxtest()

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