optional name of the distance used in the MM. One of: kendall (default), cayley, hamming, ulam
References
"Ekhine Irurozki, Borja Calvo, Jose A. Lozano (2016). PerMallows: An R Package for Mallows and Generalized Mallows Models. Journal of Statistical Software, 71(12), 1-30. doi:10.18637/jss.v071.i12"