TraMineR (version 1.6-2)

seqLLCP: Compute the length of the longest common prefix of two sequences

Description

Returns the length of the longest common prefix of two sequences. This attribute is described in Elzinga (2008).

Usage

seqLLCP(seq1, seq2)

Arguments

seq1

a sequence from a sequence object.

seq2

a sequence from a sequence object.

Value

• an integer being the length of the longest common prefix of the two sequences.

References

Elzinga, Cees H. (2008). Sequence analysis: Metric representations of categorical time series. Sociological Methods and Research, forthcoming.

See Also

seqdist

Examples

data(famform)
famform.seq <- seqdef(famform)

## The LCP's length between sequences 1 and 2
## in the famform sequence object is 2
seqLLCP(famform.seq[1,],famform.seq[2,])