braycurtis: Calculate Bray-Curtis similarity and Jaccard distance between...

Description Usage Arguments Value

Description

Calculate Bray-Curtis similarity and Jaccard distance between two real-valued vectors of abundances. Bray-Curtis similarity is calculated as sum(|x-y|/|x+y|), where x and y are real-valued vectors. and Jaccard similarity is calculated as 2BC/(1+BC), where BC is the Bray-Curtis similarity.

Usage

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braycurtis(x, y)

Arguments

x

A vector of species abundances.

y

A second vector of abundances, with the same length as x.

Value

The similarity or distance between the two abundance vectors.


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