subset_distance

subset_distance, a MATLAB code which estimates the expected value of the Hamming distance between a pair of randomly selected subsets of an M set.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

subset_distance is available in a MATLAB version.

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Source Code:

• subset_distance_hamming.m, computes the Hamming distance between two subsets.
• subset_distance_histogram.m, displays a histogram from N samples of pairwise distances.
• subset_distance_pdf.m, displays a plot of the exact PDF of the pairwise distances.
• subset_distance_stats.m, estimates the mean and variance of the pairwise distance, using sampling.
• subset_sample.m, returns a random subset of an M set.