Categorical

Scientific type of categorical (a.k.a. discrete) variables.

Compositional

Scientific type of compositional data (See CoDa.jl).

Continuous

Scientific type of continuous variables.

Distributional

Scientific type of distributional data (See Distributions.jl)

Geometrical

Scientific type of geometrical data (See Meshes.jl)

SciType

Parent type of all scientific types.

Temporal

Scientific type of temporal data (e.g. Date, Time, DateTime).

Tensorial

Scientific type of tensorial data (e.g. Vector, Matrix)

Unknown

Scientific type used as a fallback in the scitype trait function.

coerce(S::Type{<:SciType}, itr)

Convert the scientific type of elements of the iterable itr to S, ignoring missing values.

elscitype(itr) -> SciType
elscitype(I::Type) -> SciType

Return the scientific type of the elements of iterator itr of type I.

isordered(itr)

Checks whether the categorical variables of the iterable itr are ordered.

sciconvert(S::Type{<:SciType}, x)

Convert the scientific type of object x to S.

scitype(x) -> SciType
scitype(T::Type) -> SciType

Return the scientific type of object x of type T.