vi_dist {RAFS}

Variation of Information (VI)

Description

To be used as one of the dist_funs in run_rafs.

Usage

vi_dist(relevant_train_data, train_decision = NULL, seed)

Arguments

relevant_train_data

input data where columns are variables and rows are observations (all numeric); assumed to contain only relevant data

train_decision

decision variable as a binary sequence of length equal to number of observations

seed

a numerical seed

Details

This function computes the Variation of Information (VI) averaged over 30 discretisations.

Value

A matrix of distances (dissimilarities).