Package: EntropicStatistics
Type: Package
Title: Functions Based on Entropic Statistics
Version: 0.2.0
Authors@R: c(
    person("Jialin", "Zhang", email = "jzhang@math.msstate.edu",
           role = c("aut", "cph", "cre")),
    person("Jingyi \"Catherine\"", "Shi", email = "js5328@msstate.edu",
           role = "aut",
           comment = c(Affiliation = paste("Department of Mathematics and Statistics,",
                                            "Mississippi State University")))
    )
Description: Nonparametric tools for comparing discrete distributions through
    generalized Shannon entropy profiles, following Zhang and Shi (2024)
    <doi:10.1016/j.spl.2024.110070>. HeatMap() visualizes these profiles across
    entropy orders. HeatMapOrder() provides hierarchical clustering, reference
    similarity ranking, and other row orderings, with accessible profiles and
    position tables. Comparisons are invariant to category permutations and
    describe distributional shape rather than dependence between variables.
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: ggplot2 (>= 3.4.0), rlang, stats, utils
Suggests: testthat (>= 3.0.0)
Config/testthat/edition: 3
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-11-04 15:28:48 UTC; jz505
Author: Jialin Zhang [aut, cph, cre],
  Jingyi "Catherine" Shi [aut] (Affiliation: Department of Mathematics
    and Statistics, Mississippi State University)
Maintainer: Jialin Zhang <jzhang@math.msstate.edu>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-11-04 23:30:11 UTC
