Canberra Distances and Stability Indicator of Ranked Lists

Canberra distance

Canberra Distance with Location Parameter

See [Jurman08].

The function computes:

\sum_i{\frac{|\min\{x_i+1, k+1\} - \min\{y_i+1, k+1\}|} {\min\{x_i+1, k+1\} + \min\{y_i+1, k+1\}}}

Canberra Stability Indicator

See [Jurman08].

[Jurman08]

(1, 2) G Jurman, S Riccadonna, R Visintainer and C Furlanello. Algebraic stability indicators for ranked lists in molecular profiling. Bioinformatics Vol. 24 no. 2 2008, pages 258–264.