Use maximum aggregation.

Use the maximum aggregation method to aggregate meta-path based similarity scores.

aggregate_maximum(sim_dt, verbose)

Arguments

sim_dt

A data.table containing the collapsed output of multiple get_similarity()$Similarity calls extracted by extract_sim().

verbose

Should aggregation method be printed to the console?

Value

A data.table with multiple columns, including:

Metric

The name of the similarity metric used (e.g., "PathSim").

Method

The name of the aggregation method used (i.e., "Maximum").

SetSimilarity

The aggregate set similarity score.

References

Guney, E., Menche, J., Vidal, M. & Barábasi, A.-L. Network-based in silico drug efficacy screening. Nat Commun 7, 10331 (2016).

See also

get_similarity() for pairwise meta-path based similarity calculation.