similarity-class

show,similarity-method

object of class <code>similarity</code>

object

Container for class <code>similarity</code>.

Provides a framework for the measurement and partitioning of
the (similarity-sensitive) biodiversity of a metacommunity and its
constituent subcommunities. Richard Reeve, et al. (2016)
<arXiv:1404.6520v3>.

Sonia Mitchell

rdiversity

Measurement and Partitioning of Similarity-Sensitive
Biodiversity

Richard Reeve

Tom White

similarity-class function

<dl class="dl-horizontal">
<dt><code>similarity</code></dt><dd>two-dimensional <code>matrix</code> of mode <code>numeric</code>
with rows as types, columns as types, and elements containing the pairwise
similarity of types</dd></dl><dt><code>dat_id</code></dt><dd>object of class <code>character</code> describing the class of
distance / similarity being used, e.g. "naive", "taxonomic", and so on</dd><dt><code>components</code></dt><dd>list containing the components necessary to calculate
similarity. This list is empty when <code>precompute_dist = TRUE</code> when
calculating distance. When a pairwise distance matrix is too large and
<code>precompute_dist = FALSE</code>, this list contains all the information
required to calculate pairwise distance between types</dd><dt><code>parameters</code></dt><dd>list containing parameters associated with
converting pairwise distances to similarities (the <code>dist2sim()</code>
arguments)</dd>

similarity-class: similarity-class

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