distKendall: Kendall distance between two ranks

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distKendallR Documentation

Kendall distance between two ranks

Description

The Kendall distance between two ranks is the number of pairs that are in different order in the two ranks.

Usage

distKendall(x, y, type = "ordering")

Arguments

x, y

two ranks of size m.

type

type of the rank representation ("ordering" ou "ranking").

Value

an integer, the Kendall distance between x and y.

Author(s)

Julien Jacques

References

A New Measure of Rank Correlation, M. G. Kendall

See Also

Other distance: distCayley(), distHamming(), distSpearman()

Examples

x <- 1:5
y <- c(2, 3, 1, 4, 5)
distKendall(x, y, type = "ordering")


Rankcluster documentation built on Nov. 12, 2022, 9:05 a.m.