agrmt (version 1.35)

BlairLacy: Calculate l

Description

Calculate Blair and Lacy's l.

Usage

BlairLacy(V)

Arguments

V

A frequency vector

Value

• The function returns the l.

Details

This function calculates Blair and Lacy's l, a measure of concentration based on linear Euclidean distances. This function follows the presentation by Blair and Lacy 2000. The measure l-squared by Blair and Lacy is implemented as lsquared.

References

Blair, J., and M. Lacy. 2000. Statistics of Ordinal Variation. Sociological Methods & Research 28 (3): 251-280.

See Also

lsquared

Examples

# Sample data
V <- c(30,40,210,130,530,50,10)
BlairLacy(V)