ribiosUtils (version 1.5-6)

cumOverlapCoefficient: Cumulative overlap coefficient

Description

Cumulative overlap coefficient

Usage

cumOverlapCoefficient(list)
cumOverlapDistance(list)

Arguments

list

A list of characters or integers

Value

The cumulative overlap coefficients, a vector of values between 0 and 1, of the same length as the input list

The cumulative overlap coefficient is calculated by calculating the overlap coefficient of element i and the union of elements between 1 and i-1. The cumulative overlap coefficient of the first element is set as 0.0.

The cumulative overlap distance is defined in almost the same way, with the only difference the distance is returned. The value of the first element is 1.0. Pratically it is calculated by 1-cumOverlapCoefficient.

Since the denominator of the overlap coefficient is the size of the smaller set of the two, which is bound to be the size of element i, the cumulative overlap distance can be interpreted as the proportion of new items in each new element that are unseen in previous elements. Similarly, the cumulative overlap coefficient can be interpreted as the proportion of items in each new element that have been seen in previous elements. See examples below.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
myList <- list(first=LETTERS[1:5], second=LETTERS[6:10], third=LETTERS[8:12], fourth=LETTERS[1:12])
cumOverlapCoefficient(myList)
cumOverlapDistance(myList)

# }