AIT.dist {QFASA}

Returns the distance between two compositional vectors using Aitchison's distance measure.

Description

Returns the distance between two compositional vectors using Aitchison's distance measure.

Usage

AIT.dist(x.1, x.2)

Arguments

x.1

compositional vector

x.2

compositional vector

References

Aitchison, J., (1992) On criteria for measures of compositional difference. Mathematical Geology, 24(4), pp.365-379.

Connie Stewart (2017) An approach to measure distance between compositional diet estimates containing essential zeros, Journal of Applied Statistics, 44:7, 1137-1152, DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2016.1193846