distKendall function

Kendall distance between two ranks

The Kendall distance between two ranks is the number of pairs that are in different order in the two ranks.

distKendall(x, y, type = "ordering")

Arguments

• x, y: two ranks of size m.
• type: type of the rank representation ("ordering" ou "ranking").

Returns

an integer, the Kendall distance between x and y.

Examples

x <- 1:5
y <- c(2, 3, 1, 4, 5)
distKendall(x, y, type = "ordering")

References

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

See Also

Other distance: distCayley(), distHamming(), distSpearman()

Author(s)

Julien Jacques