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kendallW: Kendall's W (coefficient of concordance)

Description

Compute Kendall's W, also known as coefficient of concordance among observed rankings and those predicted by the Plackett-Luce model.

Usage

kendallW(x, ...)

# S3 method for default kendallW(x, y, ...)

# S3 method for pltree kendallW(x, newdata = NULL, ...)

Value

Kendall's W (coefficient of concordance)

Arguments

x

an object of class pltree

...

additional arguments passed to methods

y

an object of class pltree

newdata

data for predictions

Author

David Brown and Jacob van Etten

Details

It is as wrapper of the function DescTools::KendallW, adapted to compute the Kendall's W on the observed and predicted rankings.

Kendall's W values range between 0 (no agreement) to 1 (full agreement)

See Also

Other goodness-of-fit functions: kendallTau(), pseudoR2()