PLS-DA distance between groups

Hello mixOmics user group
Is there any way I can obtain the multidimensional distance between groups when using the PLS-DA. For example I have some spectra scanning data (300 or so wavelengths - taken every 2 weeks from the same marked apples on the tree during growth and development - these are my catogerical groups for PLS-DA. Can I obtain the distance (mahalanobis ?) between the group centroids ?
Thanks in advance
Roy Mc

Hi @RoyMcCormick,

Glad to know that you are using PLSDA in our analysis.

Mahalanobis distance is used to get the distance between a data point within a group and the centroid of the same group. If you wish to calculate the distance between the centroids of groups, you can simply use the base R dist function which supports multiple distance measures (see ?dist). To calculate the centroids, you can simply average the variates for each group and component.

Hope it helps,

Al

Hello Al

Thanks for the helpful reply.

Best

Roy