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distratio

Distance ratio test statistics for distance based clustering

Description

Calculates the ratio between the prop smallest and largest distances of a distance matrix.

Usage

distratio(distmat, prop = 0.25)

Arguments

distmat

symmetric distance matrix.
prop

numerical. Proportion between 0 and 1.

Details

Rounding is by floor for small and ceiling for large distances.

Value

A list with components

dr

ratio of prop smallest to prop largest distances.
lowmean

mean of prop smallest distances.
himean

mean of prop smallest distances.
prop

see above.

Author(s)

References

Hennig, C. and Hausdorf, B. (2004) Distance-based parametric bootstrap tests for clustering of species ranges. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 45, 875-896.

See Also

Examples

options(digits=4)
data(kykladspecreg)
j <- jaccard(t(kykladspecreg))
distratio(j)
prabclus

Functions for Clustering and Testing of Presence-Absence, Abundance and Multilocus Genetic Data

v2.3-2
GPL
Authors
Christian Hennig <christian.hennig@unibo.it>, Bernhard Hausdorf <Hausdorf@zoologie.uni-hamburg.de>
Initial release
2020-01-06

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