Package {DDAWASS}

Type:	Package
Title:	Discrete Distribution Data Analysis with Wasserstein Distance
Version:	1.0.0
Date:	2026-10-21
Description:	S4 classes and methods for the analysis of data described by discrete distributions with finite support (e.g. frequency distributions of ratings, scores or counts observed on groups of individuals), using the L2 Wasserstein metric between quantile functions. It is the discrete counterpart of 'HistDAWass' and provides exact Wasserstein distances (in C++), barycenters, Wasserstein variance, covariance and correlation, k-means and hierarchical clustering, quantile-based principal component and multiple factor analysis, two-component linear regression and reliability (Cronbach's alpha) indices. See Crocetta, Irpino, Antonucci and Marin (2025) <doi:10.1007/s11135-024-01956-0>.
License:	GPL (≥ 3)
Encoding:	UTF-8
LazyData:	true
Depends:	R (≥ 4.0.0), methods
Imports:	Rcpp (≥ 1.0.0), HistDAWass, FactoMineR, ggplot2, rlang, tibble, stats, utils, grDevices
LinkingTo:	Rcpp
Suggests:	testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, CUB
VignetteBuilder:	knitr
Config/testthat/edition:	3
RoxygenNote:	7.3.1
URL:	https://github.com/Airpino/DDAWASS
BugReports:	https://github.com/Airpino/DDAWASS/issues
NeedsCompilation:	yes
Packaged:	2026-10-22 13:46:54 UTC; anton
Author:	Antonio Irpino [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer:	Antonio Irpino <antonio.irpino@unicampania.it>
Repository:	CRAN
Date/Publication:	2026-11-04 21:00:02 UTC

DDAWASS: Discrete Distribution Data Analysis with Wasserstein distance

Description

Classes and methods for data whose cells are discrete distributions with finite support (frequency distributions of ratings, scores, counts, ...), analysed in the L2 Wasserstein (quantile) metric space. The package is the discrete counterpart of HistDAWass: it provides the distributionD and MatD classes, exact and fast (C++) Wasserstein distances, barycenters, variance, covariance and correlation, k-means and hierarchical clustering, quantile-based PCA and MFA, two-component regression and Cronbach's alpha.

Details

Main functions:

• building data: distributionD, MatD, data2MatD, long2MatD, MatH2MatD, tibble2MatD;

• statistics: WD.vec.mean, WD.vec.mean.simplified, simplifyD, WD.var.covar, WD.correlation, get.MatD.stats;

• distances and clustering: WassSqDistD, WD_MAT_DIST, WD_hclust, WD_kmeans;

• factorial methods and models: WD.1d.PCA, WD.MultiplePCA, WD.regression.two.components, WD.cronbach.

Graphical tools (Green Eyes plots, distributional heatmaps) are in the companion package DistrViz.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Antonio Irpino antonio.irpino@unicampania.it (ORCID) [copyright holder]

Arithmetic on discrete distributions

Description

Operations are defined on quantile functions, consistently with the L2 Wasserstein geometry: the sum of two distributions is the distribution whose quantile function is Q_1 + Q_2; a distribution plus a number is a shift; a distribution times a number is a rescaling (a negative number also reverses the support, Q(t) \to aQ(1-t)).

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'distributionD,distributionD'
e1 + e2

Arguments

Value

a distributionD.

Examples

a <- distributionD(x = 1:3, p = c(0.2, 0.5, 0.3))
b <- distributionD(x = c(10, 20), p = c(0.5, 0.5))
a + b
a * 2 + 1

Constructor of a matrix of discrete distributions

Description

Constructor of a matrix of discrete distributions

Usage

MatD(
  x = list(),
  nrows = 1,
  ncols = 1,
  rownames = NULL,
  varnames = NULL,
  by.row = FALSE
)

Arguments

Value

A MatD object.

Examples

d <- list(distributionD(c(1, 2, 2, 3)), distributionD(c(2, 3, 3, 3)),
          distributionD(c(1, 1, 2)),    distributionD(c(3, 3, 2)))
MatD(d, nrows = 2, ncols = 2, rownames = c("A", "B"), varnames = c("Q1", "Q2"))

Accessors of a MatD object

Description

Accessors of a MatD object

Usage

get.MatD.nrows(object)

get.MatD.ncols(object)

get.MatD.rownames(object)

get.MatD.varnames(object)

get.cell.MatD(object, r, c)

set.cell.MatD(object, r, c, value)

Arguments

Value

get.MatD.nrows and get.MatD.ncols return integers, get.MatD.rownames and get.MatD.varnames character vectors, get.cell.MatD a distributionD.

Examples

get.MatD.nrows(Satisfaction)
get.MatD.varnames(Satisfaction)
get.cell.MatD(Satisfaction, 1, 1)

Class MatD

Description

Class MatD is a matrix whose cells are distributionD objects: rows are statistical units (individuals, groups, territories, ...) and columns are discrete distributional variables. It mirrors the MatH class of HistDAWass.

Slots

M

a matrix of lists, each cell containing a distributionD.

Convert a MatD into a long data.frame

Description

Convert a MatD into a long data.frame

Usage

MatD2long(object)

Arguments

Value

a data.frame with columns row, variable (factors, in the order of the MatD), x, p and cdf.

Examples

head(MatD2long(Satisfaction))

Discretize a matrix of histograms (MatH) into a MatD

Description

Each histogram of a HistDAWass::MatH is transformed into a discrete distribution on n_levels classes: the masses are the probabilities of the classes defined by the breaks. This is the transformation used to compare continuous and discrete distributional data and to draw Green Eyes plots and distributional heatmaps of histogram data.

Usage

MatH2MatD(
  object,
  n_levels = 10,
  scheme = c("variable", "global", "standardized"),
  breaks = NULL,
  values = c("index", "midpoint"),
  return.breaks = FALSE
)

Arguments

Value

a MatD (or a list).

Examples

library(HistDAWass)
B <- MatH2MatD(BLOOD, n_levels = 10)
B

Simulated hotel satisfaction survey

Description

A MatD with 30 fictitious hotels (rows) and the distributions of the 0-10 scores given by their guests to seven items and to the overall satisfaction (columns). Data are simulated (see data-raw/Satisfaction.R in the source package); Satisfaction_raw contains the simulated individual answers.

Usage

Satisfaction

Format

Satisfaction: a MatD with 30 rows and 8 columns (Staff, Cleanliness, Comfort, Location, Price, Food, WiFi, Overall). Satisfaction_raw: a data.frame with one row per guest.

Examples

Satisfaction
plot(Satisfaction[1:3, 1:3])

Principal component analysis of a single discrete distributional variable

Description

Performs the quantile-based PCA of one distributional variable (Verde and Irpino, 2010): a classical non-standardised PCA (with PCA) of the matrix of quantiles, with the means and the standard deviations of the distributions as supplementary variables.

Usage

WD.1d.PCA(data, var = 1, quantiles = 10, plots = TRUE, ncp = 5)

Arguments

Value

the PCA object of FactoMineR with the additional element quantile_matrix.

Examples

res <- WD.1d.PCA(Satisfaction, var = "Staff", plots = FALSE)
res$eig[1:3, ]
WD.plot.Spanish.fan(res)

Multiple factor analysis of discrete distributional variables

Description

Quantile-based multiple factor analysis (MFA) of several distributional variables: each variable is represented by a group of quantile columns and the groups are balanced as in MFA.

Usage

WD.MultiplePCA(
  data,
  list.of.vars,
  quantiles = 10,
  ncp = 5,
  pp = c(0, 1),
  plots = TRUE
)

Arguments

Value

the MFA object with the additional element quantile_matrix.

References

Crocetta C., Irpino A., Antonucci L., Marin C. (2025). A performance indicator and its decomposition according to the impacts of different aspects based on distributional data. Quality & Quantity, 59(3), 2091–2110. doi:10.1007/s11135-024-01956-0

Examples

res <- WD.MultiplePCA(Satisfaction, 1:4, quantiles = 5, plots = FALSE)
res$eig[1:3, ]

Total sum of squares of a discrete distributional variable

Description

WD.SSQ returns the (weighted) sum of squared Wasserstein distances of the distributions of each column from their barycenter (the deviance).

Usage

WD.SSQ(object, w = 1)

Arguments

Value

a named numeric vector (one value per column).

Examples

WD.SSQ(Satisfaction[, 1:3])

Bind MatD objects by rows or by columns

Description

Bind MatD objects by rows or by columns

Usage

WD.bind.col(a, b)

WD.bind.row(a, b)

Arguments

Value

a MatD.

Examples

WD.bind.col(Satisfaction[, 1:2], Satisfaction[, 3])

Cronbach's alpha for discrete distributional variables

Description

Computes Cronbach's alpha using the Wasserstein covariance matrix of a set of distributional items (GLOB), and its decomposition into the part due to the covariance of the means (AVE) and the part due to the covariance of the centred distributions (VAR). The alpha.if.deleted matrix reports the values obtained removing each item in turn.

Usage

WD.cronbach(object)

Arguments

Value

a list with alpha and alpha.if.deleted.

Examples

WD.cronbach(Satisfaction)

Spanish-fan plot of a quantile PCA

Description

Draws the plot of the quantile variables of a WD.1d.PCA as consecutive coloured triangles (the "Spanish fan"): colours go from red (extreme quantiles) to yellow (median).

Usage

WD.plot.Spanish.fan(res, axes = c(1, 2))

Arguments

Value

a ggplot object.

Examples

res <- WD.1d.PCA(Satisfaction, var = "Price", plots = FALSE)
WD.plot.Spanish.fan(res, axes = c(1, 2))

Matrix of quantiles of a MatD

Description

For each row and each selected variable, the quantiles at levels seq(pp[1], pp[2], length.out = quantiles + 1) are computed and arranged in a numeric matrix (one block of quantiles + 1 columns per variable).

Usage

WD.quantile.matrix(
  object,
  quantiles = 10,
  vars = seq_len(ncol(object@M)),
  pp = c(0, 1)
)

Arguments

Value

a numeric matrix.

Examples

WD.quantile.matrix(Satisfaction, quantiles = 4, vars = 1:2)[1:5, ]

Goodness of fit indices for distributional regression

Description

Computes the root mean squared Wasserstein error (RMSE_W), the OMEGA index and the pseudo-R^2 of Irpino and Verde (2015), with the same definitions of HistDAWass::WH.regression.GOF.

Usage

WD.regression.GOF(observed, predicted)

Arguments

Value

a list with RMSE_W, OMEGA and PSEUDOR2.

Examples

xv <- c("Staff", "Cleanliness")
pars <- WD.regression.two.components(Satisfaction, "Overall", xv)
pred <- WD.regression.two.components.predict(Satisfaction[, xv], pars)
gof <- WD.regression.GOF(Satisfaction[, "Overall"], pred)
gof$OMEGA

Two-component regression of discrete distributional variables

Description

Fits the two-component linear model of Irpino and Verde (2015) to discrete distributional data:

Q_{y_i}(t) = \beta_0 + \sum_j \beta_j \mu_{x_{ij}} + \sum_j \gamma_j Q^c_{x_{ij}}(t) + e_i(t)

where Q^c is the centred quantile function (Q - \mu) and \gamma_j \ge 0 so that the predicted quantile functions are non-decreasing. Since centred quantile functions are orthogonal to constants, the least-squares problem splits into an OLS regression on the means (\beta) and a non-negative least-squares problem on the centred parts (\gamma), both solved exactly.

Usage

WD.regression.two.components(data, Yvar, Xvars)

Arguments

Value

a named vector of parameters: (AV_Intercept), the AV_ coefficients of the means and the CEN_ coefficients of the centred distributions.

References

Irpino A., Verde R. (2015). Linear regression for numeric symbolic variables: a least squares approach based on Wasserstein distance. Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, 9(1), 81–106. doi:10.1007/s11634-015-0197-7

Examples

pars <- WD.regression.two.components(Satisfaction, Yvar = "Overall",
                                     Xvars = c("Staff", "Price", "Cleanliness"))
pars
xv <- c("Staff", "Price", "Cleanliness")
pred <- WD.regression.two.components.predict(Satisfaction[, xv], pars)
WD.regression.GOF(Satisfaction[, "Overall"], pred)[c("RMSE_W", "OMEGA")]

Predictions of the two-component regression

Description

Predictions of the two-component regression

Usage

WD.regression.two.components.predict(data, parameters)

Arguments

Value

a one-column MatD of predicted distributions.

Examples

xv <- c("Staff", "Price")
pars <- WD.regression.two.components(Satisfaction, "Overall", xv)
pred <- WD.regression.two.components.predict(Satisfaction[, xv], pars)
pred[1:3, ]

Wasserstein variance-covariance and correlation matrices

Description

WD.var.covar computes the covariance matrix of the discrete distributional variables of a MatD, following the L2 Wasserstein (quantile) approach of Irpino and Verde (2015):

C_{jk} = \sum_i w_i \int_0^1 (Q_{ij}(t) - \bar{Q}_j(t))(Q_{ik}(t) - \bar{Q}_k(t)) dt

where \bar{Q}_j is the quantile function of the barycenter of variable j. The diagonal contains the Wasserstein (Frechet) variances. WD.correlation returns the corresponding correlation matrix.

Usage

WD.var.covar(object, w = 1)

WD.correlation(object, w = 1)

Arguments

Value

a p x p matrix.

References

Irpino A., Verde R. (2015). Basic statistics for distributional symbolic variables: a new metric-based approach. Advances in Data Analysis and Classification, 9(2), 143–175. doi:10.1007/s11634-014-0176-4

Examples

WD.var.covar(Satisfaction)
round(WD.correlation(Satisfaction), 3)

Barycenter (Frechet mean) of discrete distributional variables

Description

Computes, for each column of a MatD, the (weighted) L2 Wasserstein barycenter of its distributions, i.e. the distribution whose quantile function is the weighted average of the quantile functions. The barycenter of discrete distributions is itself discrete; its support is in general not a subset of the original supports.

Usage

WD.vec.mean(object, w = 1)

Arguments

Value

a distributionD if object has one column, otherwise a one-row MatD.

Examples

WD.vec.mean(Satisfaction[, "Staff"])
WD.vec.mean(Satisfaction)

Barycenter expressed on the original support values

Description

Computes the exact Wasserstein barycenter of each column of a MatD (see WD.vec.mean) and then projects it on the support of the variable with simplifyD, so that the result has the same categories of the data (e.g. the 1-7 scores of a Likert item) and new probabilities. The result is the distribution on the given support closest to the exact barycenter, and it is also the barycenter of the data constrained to that support (see simplifyD). It is an approximation, useful for presentation and interpretation: the exact barycenter, returned by WD.vec.mean, is the one used in all the computations of the package (variances, covariances, k-means prototypes, ...).

Usage

WD.vec.mean.simplified(object, w = 1, support = NULL)

Arguments

Value

a distributionD if object has one column, otherwise a one-row MatD.

Examples

exact <- WD.vec.mean(Satisfaction[, "Staff"])
approx <- WD.vec.mean.simplified(Satisfaction[, "Staff"], support = 0:10)
approx
WassSqDistD(exact, approx)

Matrix of L2 Wasserstein distances between the rows of a MatD

Description

The distance between two rows (units) is d(i, i') = \sqrt{\sum_j \lambda_j d_W^2(x_{ij}, x_{i'j})}. The computation is done in C++ with an exact linear-time algorithm.

Usage

WD_MAT_DIST(object, simplify = FALSE, weights = 1, squared = FALSE)

Arguments

Value

a symmetric n x n matrix.

Examples

D <- WD_MAT_DIST(Satisfaction)
round(D[1:5, 1:5], 3)

Hierarchical clustering of discrete distributional data

Description

Agglomerative clustering (hclust) based on the L2 Wasserstein distance between rows.

Usage

WD_hclust(x, simplify = FALSE, method = "complete", weights = 1)

Arguments

Value

an object of class hclust.

Examples

hc <- WD_hclust(Satisfaction, method = "ward.D2")
plot(hc)

K-means clustering of discrete distributional data

Description

Dynamic clustering (k-means) of the rows of a MatD using the L2 Wasserstein distance; prototypes are the Wasserstein barycenters of the clusters. Initial prototypes are chosen with the k-means++ seeding, the best of rep runs is returned.

Usage

WD_kmeans(
  x,
  k,
  rep = 5,
  simplify = FALSE,
  qua = 10,
  standardize = FALSE,
  weights = 1,
  iter.max = 100,
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

Value

a list with solution (a list with IDX, the cluster labels, cardinality, centers, a MatD of prototypes, and Crit, the within sum of squares), quality (the ratio between the between and the total sum of squares), TSS and all.crit, the criteria of all the repetitions.

Examples

set.seed(1)
km <- WD_kmeans(Satisfaction, k = 3, rep = 5)
km$solution$IDX
km$quality

L2 Wasserstein distance between discrete distributions

Description

Computes the (squared) L2 Wasserstein distance between two distributionD objects, i.e. the L2 distance between their quantile functions. The computation is exact: quantile functions of discrete distributions are step functions and the integral is evaluated on the merged grid of cumulative probabilities.

Usage

WassSqDistD(object1, object2, ...)

## S4 method for signature 'distributionD,distributionD'
WassSqDistD(object1, object2, details = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

Details

With details = TRUE the squared distance is decomposed (Irpino and Romano, 2007) into a location, a size and a shape component:

d_W^2 = (\mu_1 - \mu_2)^2 + (\sigma_1 - \sigma_2)^2 + 2\sigma_1\sigma_2(1 - \rho_{QQ})

Value

the squared distance or, if details = TRUE, a named vector with the components SQ.W, POSITION, SIZE, SHAPE and rQQ.

References

Irpino A., Romano E. (2007). Optimal histogram representation of large data sets: Fisher vs piecewise linear approximation. RNTI E-9, 99–110.

Examples

a <- distributionD(x = 1:5, p = c(0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.25))
b <- distributionD(x = 1:5, p = c(0.3, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1, 0.1))
WassSqDistD(a, b)
WassSqDistD(a, b, details = TRUE)

Extract a sub-matrix of a MatD

Description

Extract a sub-matrix of a MatD

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'MatD,ANY,ANY,ANY'
x[i, j, ..., drop = FALSE]

Arguments

Value

a MatD.

Examples

Satisfaction[1:3, c("Staff", "Price")]

Quantiles and cdf of a discrete distribution

Description

Methods of the HistDAWass generics compQ and compP for distributionD objects. The quantile function is the left-continuous inverse of the cdf, Q(t) = \min\{x: F(x) \ge t\}, with Q(0) = \min(x).

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'distributionD,ANY'
compQ(object, p)

## S4 method for signature 'distributionD,ANY'
compP(object, q)

Arguments

Value

a numeric vector.

Examples

d <- distributionD(x = 1:5, p = c(0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.25))
compQ(d, c(0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1))
compP(d, c(2, 3.5))

Build a MatD from raw (micro) data

Description

Each row of data is an observation (e.g. a respondent) belonging to a group defined by one or more categorical columns (unit); for each group and each variable in vars the frequency distribution of the observed values is computed.

Usage

data2MatD(data, unit, vars, support = NULL, min.n = 1, sep = "_")

Arguments

Value

a MatD with one row per group. The number of observations of each distribution is stored in its n slot (see get.MatD.stats(x, "n")).

Examples

set.seed(2)
raw <- data.frame(shop = rep(c("A", "B", "C"), each = 50),
                  gender = sample(c("F", "M"), 150, replace = TRUE),
                  q1 = sample(1:5, 150, replace = TRUE),
                  q2 = sample(0:10, 150, replace = TRUE))
data2MatD(raw, unit = "shop", vars = c("q1", "q2"))
data2MatD(raw, unit = c("shop", "gender"), vars = c("q1", "q2"),
          support = list(1:5, 0:10), min.n = 20)

Constructor of a discrete distribution

Description

Builds a distributionD object. Three ways to call it:

• distributionD(x, p): support values and probabilities;

• distributionD(x, counts = k): support values and absolute frequencies;

• distributionD(obs): a vector of raw observations, which is tabulated.

Duplicated support values are merged, values with zero mass are dropped and the probabilities are normalised to sum to one.

Usage

distributionD(x = numeric(0), p = NULL, counts = NULL, keep.zeros = FALSE)

Arguments

Value

A distributionD object.

Examples

# from support and probabilities
d1 <- distributionD(x = 1:5, p = c(0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.2, 0.1))
# from counts
d2 <- distributionD(x = 0:10, counts = c(1, 0, 2, 3, 5, 10, 12, 20, 25, 15, 7))
# from raw observations
d3 <- distributionD(c(3, 4, 4, 5, 5, 5, 2, 4))
d1; meanD(d2); stdD(d3)

Class distributionD

Description

Class distributionD describes a discrete distribution with a finite support (e.g. the frequency distribution of a Likert/0-10 rating, of a count, or of any variable observed on a finite set of numeric values). It is the discrete counterpart of the distributionH class of HistDAWass.

Slots

x

numeric vector: the support values, sorted in increasing order and without duplicates.

p

numeric vector: the probability masses (relative frequencies) associated with x; they are positive and sum to one.

cdf

numeric vector: the cumulative distribution function evaluated at x (cumsum(p), last value equal to 1).

n

numeric: the number of observations the distribution was computed from (NA when unknown).

m

numeric: the mean of the distribution.

s

numeric: the standard deviation of the distribution.

See Also

distributionD for the constructor.

Inner product of quantile functions

Description

dotpD(a, b) computes \int_0^1 Q_a(t) Q_b(t) dt, the building block of Wasserstein-based covariances.

Usage

dotpD(a, b)

Arguments

Value

a number.

Examples

a <- distributionD(x = 1:3, p = c(0.2, 0.5, 0.3))
b <- distributionD(x = c(2, 4), p = c(0.5, 0.5))
dotpD(a, b)

Statistics of the distributions in a MatD

Description

Returns a matrix with a summary statistic computed for each cell.

Usage

get.MatD.stats(object, stat = "mean", prob = 0.5)

Arguments

Value

a list with elements stat and mat.

Examples

get.MatD.stats(Satisfaction)$mat[1:5, ]
get.MatD.stats(Satisfaction, stat = "quantile", prob = 0.1)$mat[1:5, ]

Build a MatD from a long frequency table

Description

Build a MatD from a long frequency table

Usage

long2MatD(
  data,
  unit = "unit",
  variable = "variable",
  value = "value",
  freq = "freq"
)

Arguments

Value

a MatD.

Examples

tab <- expand.grid(unit = c("u1", "u2"), variable = c("A", "B"), value = 1:3)
tab$freq <- c(5, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 6, 6, 6)
long2MatD(tab)

Plot a MatD

Description

Draws a grid of bar charts (rows = units, columns = variables).

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'MatD'
plot(x, y, type = "BAR", col = "#2E7D32", ...)

Arguments

Value

a ggplot object.

Examples

plot(Satisfaction[1:4, 1:4])

Plot a discrete distribution

Description

Plot a discrete distribution

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'distributionD'
plot(x, y, type = "BAR", col = "#2E7D32", ...)

Arguments

Value

a ggplot object.

Examples

d <- distributionD(x = 0:10, counts = c(1, 0, 2, 3, 5, 10, 12, 20, 25, 15, 7))
plot(d)
plot(d, type = "CDF")

Quantile-quantile correlation of two discrete distributions

Description

Method of the HistDAWass generic rQQ: the correlation between the quantile functions of two distributionD.

Usage

## S4 method for signature 'distributionD,distributionD'
rQQ(e1, e2)

Arguments

Value

a number in [-1, 1].

Examples

a <- distributionD(x = 1:5, p = c(0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.25))
b <- distributionD(x = 1:5, p = c(0.3, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1, 0.1))
rQQ(a, b)

Project discrete distributions on a fixed support

Description

simplifyD moves the mass of each support value of a distribution to the nearest value of a given support (e.g. the categories 1:5 of a Likert scale): the value s_k receives the masses of all the points in ((s_{k-1} + s_k)/2, (s_k + s_{k+1})/2]; masses below the first midpoint go to s_1 and masses above the last one to s_K. Ties (points exactly at a midpoint) go to the lower value.

Usage

simplifyD(object, support = NULL, keep.zeros = TRUE)

Arguments

Details

The nearest-point rule gives the distribution supported on support closest to the original one in the L2 Wasserstein distance (indeed, in any Wasserstein distance): it is the Wasserstein projection on the set of distributions supported on support. It is typically used to express a barycenter (whose support is generally made of non-integer values) on the original categories of the variable, see WD.vec.mean.simplified. The mean of the projected distribution may differ from the original one, by at most half of the largest gap between consecutive support values.

For a barycenter \bar\mu of \mu_1, \dots, \mu_n, since \sum_i w_i d_W^2(\mu_i, \nu) = \sum_i w_i d_W^2(\mu_i, \bar\mu) + d_W^2(\bar\mu, \nu), the projection of \bar\mu on the support is also a barycenter of the data constrained to have that support. A proof is given in the file barycenter_projection.pdf installed with the package: system.file("doc-theory", "barycenter_projection.pdf", package = "DDAWASS").

Value

an object of the same class as object.

Examples

b <- distributionD(x = c(1, 1.1, 1.35, 1.6, 1.8, 2.5, 2.6, 3.4, 4.9),
                   p = c(1, 2, 4, 8, 3, 5, 10, 6, 1))
s <- simplifyD(b, support = 1:5)
s
WassSqDistD(b, s)   # the smallest possible among distributions on 1:5

Basic statistics of a discrete distribution

Description

meanD, stdD, varD, skewD and kurtD return the mean, the standard deviation, the variance, the (Pearson) skewness and the (non-excess) kurtosis of a distributionD.

Usage

meanD(object)

stdD(object)

varD(object)

skewD(object)

kurtD(object)

## S4 method for signature 'distributionD'
meanD(object)

## S4 method for signature 'distributionD'
stdD(object)

## S4 method for signature 'distributionD'
varD(object)

## S4 method for signature 'distributionD'
skewD(object)

## S4 method for signature 'distributionD'
kurtD(object)

Arguments

Value

a number.

Examples

d <- distributionD(x = 1:5, p = c(0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.4, 0.25))
meanD(d); stdD(d); skewD(d); kurtD(d)

Convert legacy nested tibbles into a MatD (and back)

Description

The research code that preceded this package stored discrete distributional data as a tibble whose cells are data.frames with the support in the first column and a freq column (optionally n and cdf). tibble2MatD converts such objects into a MatD; MatD2tibble does the reverse.

Usage

tibble2MatD(tib, labels = NULL)

MatD2tibble(object)

Arguments

Value

a MatD (tibble2MatD) or a tibble (MatD2tibble).

Examples

tb <- MatD2tibble(Satisfaction[1:3, 1:2])
tb
tibble2MatD(tb, labels = "ID_name")