composition_stats.perturb

composition_stats.perturb(x, y)

Performs the perturbation operation.

This operation is defined as

\[x \oplus y = C[x_1 y_1, \ldots, x_D y_D]\]

\(C[x]\) is the closure operation defined as

\[C[x] = \left[\frac{x_1}{\sum_{i=1}^{D} x_i},\ldots, \frac{x_D}{\sum_{i=1}^{D} x_i} \right]\]

for some \(D\) dimensional real vector \(x\) and \(D\) is the number of components for every composition.

Parameters

xarray_like, float

a matrix of proportions where rows = compositions and columns = components each composition (row) must add up to unity (see closure())

yarray_like, float

a matrix of proportions where rows = compositions and columns = components each composition (row) must add up to unity (see closure())

Returns

numpy.ndarray, np.float64

A matrix of proportions where all of the values are nonzero and each composition (row) adds up to 1

Examples

>>> import numpy as np
>>> from composition_stats import perturb
>>> x = np.array([.1,.3,.4, .2])
>>> y = np.array([1./6,1./6,1./3,1./3])
>>> perturb(x,y)
array([ 0.0625,  0.1875,  0.5   ,  0.25  ])