IsEuclid.Rd
Confirmation of the Euclidean nature of a distance matrix by the Gower's theorem.IsEuclid
is used in summary.dist
.
IsEuclid(distmat, plot = FALSE, print = FALSE, tol = 1e-07)
an object of class 'dist'
a logical value indicating whether the eigenvalues bar plot of the matrix of the term \(-\frac{1}{2} {d_{ij}^2}\) centred by rows and columns should be diplayed
a logical value indicating whether the eigenvalues of the matrix of the term \(-\frac{1}{2} {d_{ij}^2}\) centred by rows and columns should be printed
a tolerance threshold : an eigenvalue is considered positive if it is larger than -tol*lambda1
where lambda1
is the largest eigenvalue.
returns a logical value indicating if all the eigenvalues are positive or equal to zero
Gower, J.C. and Legendre, P. (1986) Metric and Euclidean properties of dissimilarity coefficients. Journal of Classification, 3, 5--48.