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Rankcluster (version 0.93.1)

distKendall: 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.

References

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

Examples

Run this code
x=1:5
y=c(2,3,1,4,5)
distKendall(x,y,type="ordering")

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