c_inequality function

c-inequality Calculates c-inequality (as in an economic measure of inequality) as Pearsons coefficient of variation of the fitted distance matrix. This can help with avoiding degenerate solutions. This is one of few c-structuredness indices not between 0 and 1, but 0 and infinity.

c_inequality(confs, ...)

Arguments

• confs: a numeric matrix or data frame
• ...: additional arguments (don't do anything)

Returns

a numeric value; inequality (Pearsons coefficient of variation of the fitted distance matrix)

Examples

x<-1:10
y<-2+3*x+rnorm(10)
z<- sin(y-x)
confs<-cbind(z,y,x)
c_inequality(confs)