Yue and Clayton Measure of Dissimilarity

Yue and Clayton Measure of Dissimilarity

Arguments

x

A phyloseq object or a data.frame with taxa-columns and samples-rows

Value

Object of class dist

Details

Calculates Yue and Clayton measure of dissimilarity between samples. It considers total number of taxa between two samples and the relative abundance of each taxa.

References

• Yue, Jack C., and Murray K. Clayton. 2010. A similarity measure based on species proportions. Communications in Statistics-theory and Methods, 34(11), pp.2123-2131. https://doi.org/10.1080/STA-200066418 Dixon, P 2003. VEGAN, a package of R functions for community ecology. Journal of Vegetation Science, 14(6), pp.927-930. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1654-1103.2003.tb02228.x

Author

Sudarshan A. Shetty

Examples

library(biomeUtils)
data("FuentesIliGutData")
yc.dis <- getYCTheta(FuentesIliGutData)
#yc.dis[1:3,1:4]