RMallow (version 1.1)

Lambda: Objective function to determine lambda.

Description

Objective function to find the root of in calculating the lambda parameters for each cluster.

Usage

Lambda(lambda, rhs, dists, dists.table = NULL)

Arguments

lambda

lambda value to calculate the function output at.

rhs

Right-hand side of the equation in the referenced paper.

dists

Not used.

dists.table

Table of distances between each sequence and the modal sequence in N! space.

Value

Output of the objective function to determine the root of. Goal is zero.

References

"Mixtures of distance-based models for ranking data". Thomas Brendan Murphy & Donal Martin. 1 April 2002. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 41 (2003) 645-655.