eskinIndex: Eskin Index for categorical data

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s)

View source: R/eskinIndex.R

Description

This function calculates the dissimilarity index based on Eskin

Usage

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eskinIndex(dat, key = NULL, simm = FALSE)

Arguments

dat

the data

key

a character representing the unique key name for observations. For example, this could contain the name of patients in a health dataset.

simm

logical indicating whether a similarity should be returned

Details

This calculates the pairwise dissimilarities for a dataset using the goodall dissimilarity index first proposed by Eskin. Access through catDist function

Value

A matrix of pairwise dissimilarities

Author(s)

Joshua Agterberg


jagterberg/catDist documentation built on May 21, 2019, 10:11 a.m.