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philentropy — Information Theory and Distance Quantification with R

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Functions in philentropy (0.10.0)

canberra

Canberra distance (lowlevel function)
dist.diversity

Distance Diversity between Probability Density Functions
dist_many_many

Distances and Similarities between Many Probability Density Functions
dist_one_many

Distances and Similarities between One and Many Probability Density Functions
clark_sq

Clark squared distance (lowlevel function)
dist_one_one

Distances and Similarities between Two Probability Density Functions
chebyshev

Chebyshev distance (lowlevel function)
cosine_dist

Cosine distance (lowlevel function)
czekanowski

Czekanowski distance (lowlevel function)
dice_dist

Dice distance (lowlevel function)
fidelity

Fidelity distance (lowlevel function)
estimate.probability

Estimate Probability Vectors From Count Vectors
euclidean

Euclidean distance (lowlevel function)
gJSD

Generalized Jensen-Shannon Divergence
divergence_sq

Divergence squared distance (lowlevel function)
hellinger

Hellinger distance (lowlevel function)
harmonic_mean_dist

Harmonic mean distance (lowlevel function)
distance

Distances and Similarities between Probability Density Functions
gower

Gower distance (lowlevel function)
kullback_leibler_distance

kullback-Leibler distance (lowlevel function)
getDistMethods

Get method names for distance
jensen_difference

Jensen difference (lowlevel function)
jeffreys

Jeffreys distance (lowlevel function)
jaccard

Jaccard distance (lowlevel function)
kumar_hassebrook

Kumar hassebrook distance (lowlevel function)
jensen_shannon

Jensen-Shannon distance (lowlevel function)
kulczynski_d

Kulczynski_d distance (lowlevel function)
k_divergence

K-Divergence (lowlevel function)
minkowski

Minkowski distance (lowlevel function)
matusita

Matusita distance (lowlevel function)
lorentzian

Lorentzian distance (lowlevel function)
manhattan

Manhattan distance (lowlevel function)
neyman_chi_sq

Neyman chi-squared distance (lowlevel function)
intersection_dist

Intersection distance (lowlevel function)
motyka

Motyka distance (lowlevel function)
inner_product

Inner product distance (lowlevel function)
wave_hedges

Wave hedges distance (lowlevel function)
tanimoto

Tanimoto distance (lowlevel function)
taneja

Taneja difference (lowlevel function)
topsoe

Topsoe distance (lowlevel function)
squared_euclidean

Squared euclidean distance (lowlevel function)
squared_chord

Squared chord distance (lowlevel function)
pearson_chi_sq

Pearson chi-squared distance (lowlevel function)
prob_symm_chi_sq

Probability symmetric chi-squared distance (lowlevel function)
ruzicka

Ruzicka distance (lowlevel function)
soergel

Soergel distance (lowlevel function)
kumar_johnson

Kumar-Johnson distance (lowlevel function)
sorensen

Sorensen distance (lowlevel function)
lin.cor

Linear Correlation
squared_chi_sq

Squared chi-squared distance (lowlevel function)
JE

Shannon's Joint-Entropy \(H(X,Y)\)
bhattacharyya

Bhattacharyya distance (lowlevel function)
KL

Kullback-Leibler Divergence
avg

AVG distance (lowlevel function)
JSD

Jensen-Shannon Divergence
MI

Shannon's Mutual Information \(I(X,Y)\)
CE

Shannon's Conditional-Entropy \(H(X | Y)\)
additive_symm_chi_sq

Additive symmetric chi-squared distance (lowlevel function)
binned.kernel.est

Kernel Density Estimation
H

Shannon's Entropy \(H(X)\)