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Bhattacharyya Coefficient of two distributions

bhatt_coeff_brt.Rd

Calculates the Bhattacharyya Coefficient (BC) between two distributions. BC is the sum of the square root of the multiplication of the elements in bin i for both distributions. It ranges from 0 (no overlap) to 1 (full overlap). v.0.1. Used within eval_brt. Included to ensure functionality.

Usage

bhatt_coeff_brt(x, y, bw = bw.nrd0, ...)

Source

From Camrin Brawn (WHOI): https://zenodo.org/records/7971532.

Arguments

x

a numeric vector of length >= 2.

y

a numeric vector of length >= 2.

bw

can be either a fixed value of bins or a function to calculate the bandwidth of each bin (see ?bw.nrd). Default is bw.nrd0.

...

any optional arguments to be passed to the given bw function.