nearest

returns the index of the nearest neighbour of a given data point.

A selection of distances measures for bioinformatics data. Other important distance measures for bioinformatics data are selected from the R package 'parallelDist'. A special distance measure for the Gene Ontology is available.

Quirin Stier

BIDistances

Bioinformatic Distances

Michael Thrun

Luca Brinkmann

nearest function

<dl> <dt>Data</dt>
<dd>A matrix holding n data points as row vectors.</dd> <dt>i</dt>
<dd>the index of the data point, who's nearest neighbour is sought.</dd> <dt>defined</dt>
<dd>A row vector with 1 for all columns of data that are used for the computation. If missing, all columns are used.</dd></dl>

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Nearest — nearest

<dl>

 <dt>Data</dt>
<dd>A matrix holding n data points as row vectors.</dd>

 <dt>i</dt>
<dd>the index of the data point, who's nearest neighbour is sought.</dd>

 <dt>defined</dt>
<dd>A row vector with 1 for all columns of data that are used for the computation. If missing, all columns are used.</dd>

</dl>

nearest: Nearest

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