psi {distantia}

Computes sum of distances between consecutive samples in a multivariate time-series.

Description

Computes the sum of distances between consecutive samples in a multivariate time-series. Required to compute the measure of dissimilarity psi (Birks and Gordon 1985). Distances can be computed through the methods "manhattan", "euclidean", "chi", and "hellinger", and are implemented in the function distance.

Usage

psi(
  least.cost = NULL,
  autosum = NULL,
  parallel.execution = TRUE)

Arguments

least.cost

character string, name of the column with time/depth/rank data. The data in this column is not modified.

autosum

dataframe with one or several multivariate time-series identified by a grouping column.

parallel.execution

boolean, if TRUE (default), execution is parallelized, and serialized if FALSE.

Details

The measure of dissimilarity psi is computed as: least.cost - (autosum of sequences)) / autosum of sequences. It has a lower limit at 0, while there is no upper limit.

Value

A list with named slots, each one with a psi value.

Author(s)

Blas Benito <[e-mail]>

• Birks, H.J.B. and Gordon, A.D. (1985) Numerical Methods in Quaternary Pollen Analysis. Academic Press.

Examples

#loading data
data(sequenceA)
data(sequenceB)

#preparing datasets
AB.sequences <- prepareSequences(
 sequence.A = sequenceA,
 sequence.A.name = "A",
 sequence.B = sequenceB,
 sequence.B.name = "B",
 merge.mode = "complete",
 if.empty.cases = "zero",
 transformation = "hellinger"
 )

#computing distance matrix
AB.distance.matrix <- distanceMatrix(
 sequences = AB.sequences,
 grouping.column = "id",
 method = "manhattan",
 parallel.execution = FALSE
 )

#computing least cost matrix
AB.least.cost.matrix <- leastCostMatrix(
 distance.matrix = AB.distance.matrix,
 diagonal = FALSE,
 parallel.execution = FALSE
 )

AB.least.cost.path <- leastCostPath(
 least.cost.matrix = AB.least.cost.matrix,
 distance.matrix = AB.distance.matrix,
 parallel.execution = FALSE
 )

#extracting least cost
AB.least.cost <- leastCost(
 least.cost.path = AB.least.cost.path,
 parallel.execution = FALSE
 )

#autosum
AB.autosum <- autoSum(
 sequences = AB.sequences,
 least.cost.path = AB.least.cost.path,
 grouping.column = "id",
 parallel.execution = FALSE
 )
AB.autosum

AB.psi <- psi(
 least.cost = AB.least.cost,
 autosum = AB.autosum,
 parallel.execution = FALSE
 )
AB.psi