TMDDataFormat Enumeration

Source: StatTools.cs · Assembly: Dew.Stats

public enum TMDDataFormat

MD matrix data type.

Values

NameDescription
mdFormatDissimilaritiesDissimilarities represent the distance between two objects. They may be measured directly or approximated. MDS algorithms use the dissimilarities directly. A dissimilarity matrix is always symmetrical and with zero main diagonal.
mdFormatRawIn this case, dissimilarities matrix is calculated by using Dew.Stats.Units.Statistics.PairwiseDistance routine.
mdFormatSimilaritiesSimilarities represent how close (in some sense) two objects are. Similarities must obey the rule: similarity(i,j) <= similarity(i,i) and similarity(j,j) for all i and j. Similarity matrices are symmetrical. Similarities are converted to dissimilarities by the following relation: d(i,j) = Sqrt[s(i,i) + s(j,j) -2*s(i,j)] where d(i,j) represents a dissimilarity and s(i,j) represents a similarity. In case your data consists of standard measures rather than dissimilarities or similarities, you can create a similarity matrix by creating the correlation matrix.