skbio.diversity.get_beta_diversity_metrics

skbio.diversity.get_beta_diversity_metrics()

List scikit-bio’s beta diversity metrics.

The beta diversity metrics listed here can be passed as metrics to skbio.diversity.beta_diversity.

Returns:

list of str

Alphabetically sorted list of beta diversity metrics implemented in scikit-bio.

See also

beta_diversity

get_alpha_diversity_metrics

scipy.spatial.distance.pdist

Notes

SciPy implements many additional beta diversity metrics that are not included in this list. See documentation for scipy.spatial.distance.pdist for more details.