L1.dist: Apply the L1 distance function to two scores.
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L1.dist

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Apply the L1 distance function to two scores.

Apply the L1 distance function to two scores.

L1.dist(x, y, range)

`x`	a score.
`y`	a score.
`range`	the range of the scores, i.e., the difference between the maximum score and the minimum score.

This function applies the L1 distance function to two scores. This is an appropriate distance function for ordinal data.

|x - y| / r, where r is the range of the scores; or NA if either score is NA.