distSpearman function

Spearman distance between two ranks

The Spearman distance is the square of Euclidean distance between two rank vector.

distSpearman(x, y)

Arguments

• x, y: two ranks of size m.

Returns

an integer, the Spearman distance between x and y.

Examples

x <- 1:5
y <- c(2, 3, 1, 4, 5)
distSpearman(x, y)

See Also

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

Author(s)

Julien Jacques