tau.dist {bioDist}R Documentation

Kendall's tau correlational distance

Description

Calculate pairwise Kendall's tau correlational distances, i.e. 1-TAU or 1-|TAU|, for all rows of the input matrix and return an instance of the dist class.

Usage

tau.dist(x, abs = TRUE, diag = FALSE, upper = FALSE)

Arguments

x n by p matrix
abs if TRUE, then 1-|TAU| else 1-TAU
diag if TRUE, diagonal of the distance matrix will be displayed
upper if TRUE, upper triangle of the distance matrix will be displayed

Details

Row-wise correlations are computed by calling the cor function with the appropriate arguments.

Value

One minus the row-wise Kendall's tau correlations are returned as an instance of the dist class.

Author(s)

Beiying Ding

See Also

cor.dist, spearman.dist, euc, man, KLdist.matrix, KLD.matrix, mutualInfo

Examples

 x <- matrix(rnorm(200), nrow=5)
 tau.dist(x)

[Package bioDist version 1.2.0 Index]