Beta diversity
Computes a user-specified beta diversity metric for all pairs of samples in
a feature table.
Parameters
- table : FeatureTable[Frequency]
- The feature table containing the samples over which beta diversity
should be computed.
- metric : Str % Choices('sokalmichener', 'yule', 'russellrao', 'rogerstanimoto', 'aitchison', 'correlation', 'jaccard', 'cosine', 'euclidean', 'sqeuclidean', 'chebyshev', 'cityblock', 'matching', 'dice', 'mahalanobis', 'wminkowski', 'kulsinski', 'seuclidean', 'sokalsneath', 'canberra', 'canberra_adkins', 'hamming', 'braycurtis')
- The beta diversity metric to be computed.
- pseudocount : Int % Range(1, None), optional
- A pseudocount to handle zeros for compositional metrics. This is
ignored for other metrics.
Returns
- distance_matrix : DistanceMatrix
- The resulting distance matrix.