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ruzicka: Ruzicka or weighted Jaccard distance

Description

Ruzicka or weighted Jaccard distance

Usage

ruzicka(x, y)

Arguments

x, y

Numeric vectors.

Value

The Ruzicka distance between x and y. The distance is not defined if all elements in x and y are zero, and we return NaN in this case.

Details

For vectors x and y, the Ruzicka distance is defined as $$d(x, y) = 1 - \frac{\sum_i \min(x, y)}{\sum_i \max(x, y)}.$$ Relation to other definitions:

  • Equivalent to vegdist() with method = "jaccard".

  • Related to the Bray-Curtis distance, \(d_r = 2 d_{bc} / (1 + d_{bc})\).