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mixtree (version 0.0.1)

kendall: Compute the Kendall distance matrix

Description

Kendall's distance measures the depth of the most recent common infector (MRCI) for each pair of nodes with respect to the source (patient 0).

Usage

kendall(tree)

Value

A square, symmetric matrix of Kendall's distances between nodes.

Arguments

tree

A data frame representing a transmission tree, with the first column containing the infector IDs and the second the infectee IDs.

References

A Metric to Compare Transmission Trees - M Kendall · 2018

See Also

findMRCIs

Examples

Run this code
tree <- data.frame(from = c(1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3), to = c(2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7))
kendall(tree)

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