makeDistancesAndWeights function

Makes distances and weights for MDS analyses (see epMDS).

makeDistancesAndWeights(DATA, method = "euclidean", masses = NULL)

Arguments

• DATA: A data matrix to compute distances between row items.
• method: which distance metric should be used. method matches dist; Two additional distances are avaialble: "correlation" and "chi2". For "chi2" see chi2Dist. Default is "euclidean".
• masses: a diagonal matrix (or vector) that contains the masses (for the row items).

Returns

• D: Distance matrix for analysis

• MW: a list item with masses and weights. Weights are not used in epMDS.

Author(s)

Derek Beaton

See Also

link{computeMW}, link{epMDS}, link{coreMDS}