hellinger {philentropy}

Hellinger distance (lowlevel function)

Description

The lowlevel function for computing the hellinger distance.

Usage

hellinger(P, Q, testNA)

Arguments

P

a numeric vector storing the first distribution.

Q

a numeric vector storing the second distribution.

testNA

a logical value indicating whether or not distributions shall be checked for NA values.

Author(s)

Hajk-Georg Drost

Examples

hellinger(P = 1:10/sum(1:10), Q = 20:29/sum(20:29), testNA = FALSE)