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gowerD

Computes the extended Gower distance of two data sets

Description

The function gowerD is used by kNN to compute the distances for numerical, factor ordered and semi-continous variables.

Usage

gowerD(
  data.x,
  data.y = data.x,
  weights = rep(1, ncol(data.x)),
  numerical = colnames(data.x),
  factors = vector(),
  orders = vector(),
  mixed = vector(),
  levOrders = vector(),
  mixed.constant = rep(0, length(mixed)),
  returnIndex = FALSE,
  nMin = 1L,
  returnMin = FALSE
)

Arguments

`data.x`	data frame
`data.y`	data frame
`weights`	numeric vector providing weights for the observations in x
`numerical`	names of numerical variables
`factors`	names of factor variables
`orders`	names of ordered variables
`mixed`	names of mixed variables
`levOrders`	vector with number of levels for each orders variable
`mixed.constant`	vector with length equal to the number of semi-continuous variables specifying the point of the semi-continuous distribution with non-zero probability
`returnIndex`	logical if TRUE return the index of the minimum distance
`nMin`	integer number of values with smallest distance to be returned
`returnMin`	logical if the computed distances for the indices should be returned

Details

returnIndex=FALSE: a numerical matrix n x m with the computed distances returnIndex=TRUE: a named list with "ind" containing the requested indices and "mins" the computed distances

Examples

data(sleep)
# all variables used as numerical
gowerD(sleep)

# split in numerical an
gowerD(sleep, numerical = c("BodyWgt", "BrainWgt", "NonD", "Dream", "Sleep", "Span", "Gest"),
  orders = c("Pred","Exp","Danger"), levOrders = c(5,5,5))

# as before but only returning the index of the closest observation
gowerD(sleep, numerical = c("BodyWgt", "BrainWgt", "NonD", "Dream", "Sleep", "Span", "Gest"),
  orders = c("Pred","Exp","Danger"), levOrders = c(5,5,5), returnIndex = TRUE)

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Visualization and Imputation of Missing Values

v6.1.0

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Matthias Templ [aut, cre], Alexander Kowarik [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8598-4130>), Andreas Alfons [aut], Gregor de Cillia [aut], Bernd Prantner [ctb], Wolfgang Rannetbauer [aut]

Initial release