mahalanobis_distance: Calculates the mahalanobis distance between two clusters

In sbrn3/disscat: Calculates Distances Between Single Cell RNA Seq Categories

Description

Uses data from two matricies, representing a cluster each and calculates the mahalanobis distance between each cluster.

The mahalanobis distance is the distance between the means of two clusters, scaled by the covariance of the two groups.

Usage

mahalanobis_distance(matrix_1, matrix_2, distance = "euclidean")

Arguments

matrix_1	Data for cluster 1. Cell by reduced dimension components
matrix_2	Data for cluster 2 . Cell by reduced dimension components
distance	Point to point distance method to use. e.g. 'euclidean'.

Value

Real positive number representing the distance.

See Also

Other cluster_distance: average_linkage_distance, centroid_linkage_distance, complete_linkage_distance, single_linkage_distance, ward_distance

sbrn3/disscat documentation built on Dec. 12, 2019, 7:54 a.m.