doi:10.21105/joss.00765>). These comparisons between probability functions have their foundations in a broad range of scientific disciplines from mathematics to ecology. The aim of this package is to provide a core framework for clustering, classification, statistical inference, goodness-of-fit, non-parametric statistics, information theory, and machine learning tasks that are based on comparing univariate or multivariate probability functions.">

philentropy: Similarity and Distance Quantification Between Probability Functions (original) (raw)

Computes 46 optimized distance and similarity measures for comparing probability functions (Drost (2018) <doi:10.21105/joss.00765>). These comparisons between probability functions have their foundations in a broad range of scientific disciplines from mathematics to ecology. The aim of this package is to provide a core framework for clustering, classification, statistical inference, goodness-of-fit, non-parametric statistics, information theory, and machine learning tasks that are based on comparing univariate or multivariate probability functions.

Version: 0.10.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.1.2)
Imports: Rcpp, RcppParallel, KernSmooth, poorman
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppParallel
Suggests: testthat, knitr, rmarkdown, microbenchmark
Published: 2025-11-03
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.philentropy
Author: Hajk-Georg Drost ORCID iD [aut, cre], Jakub Nowosad ORCID iD [ctb], Andrew Brown ORCID iD [ctb]
Maintainer: Hajk-Georg Drost <hajk-georg.drost at tuebingen.mpg.de>
BugReports: https://github.com/drostlab/philentropy/issues
License: GPL-2
URL: https://drostlab.github.io/philentropy/,https://github.com/drostlab/philentropy
NeedsCompilation: yes
Citation: philentropy citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: philentropy results

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Reverse imports: biomartr, codez, EcotoneFinder, EnvNJ, GRelevance, iSubGen, jenga, manydist, motif, mSigTools, musicatk, naive, noisyr, regional, segen, SemNeT, spooky, supercells, tetragon, tidyclust
Reverse suggests: AntibodyForests, MetaNet, miaSim, mmb, priorsense, Rfast

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