jmotif (version 1.2.0)

min_dist: Computes the mindist value for two strings

Description

Computes the mindist value for two strings

Usage

min_dist(str1, str2, alphabet_size, compression_ratio = 1)

Value

Returns the distance between strings

Arguments

str1

the first string

str2

the second string

alphabet_size

the used alphabet size

compression_ratio

the distance compression ratio

References

Lonardi, S., Lin, J., Keogh, E., Patel, P., Finding motifs in time series. In Proc. of the 2nd Workshop on Temporal Data Mining (pp. 53-68).

Examples

str1 <- c('a', 'b', 'c')
str2 <- c('c', 'b', 'a')
min_dist(str1, str2, 3)