ecp (version 3.1.6)

getWithin: GET WITHIN DISTANCE

Description

Calculate the energy distance within a data set.

Usage

getWithin(alpha_, X_)

Value

The returned value is a real number indicating the energy distance within the given data set.

Arguments

alpha_

A weighting parameter used for calculating the energy distance. This value should be in (0,2].

X_

A n by d matrix of the n d-dimensional observations.

Author

Nicholas A. James

References

James NA, Matteson DS (2013). A Nonparametric Approach for Multiple Change Point Analysis of Multivariate Data.

Nicholas A. James, David S. Matteson (2014). "ecp: An R Package for Nonparametric Multiple Change Point Analysis of Multivariate Data.", "Journal of Statistical Software, 62(7), 1-25", URL "http://www.jstatsoft.org/v62/i07/"

Rizzo ML, Szekely GL (2005). Hierarchical clustering via joint between-within distances: Extending ward's minimum variance method. Journal of Classification. pp. 151 - 183.

Rizzo ML, Szekely GL (2010). Disco analysis: A nonparametric extension of analysis of variance. The Annals of Applied Statistics. pp. 1034 - 1055.

See Also

e.agglo e.divisive

Examples

set.seed(100)
X = matrix(rnorm(150),ncol=2)
alpha = 1
distance = getWithin(alpha,X)