Rankcluster (version 0.94.1)

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

# NOT RUN {
x <- 1:5
y <- c(2, 3, 1, 4, 5)
distKendall(x, y, type = "ordering")
# }