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Rankcluster (version 0.98.0)

distHamming: Hamming distance between two ranks

Description

The Hamming distance between two ranks x and y is the number of difference between the two ranks. For example, the Hamming's distance between x=(1,4,2,5,3) and y=(1,3,4,5,2) is 3 because, only 1 and 5 have the same place in both ranks.

Usage

distHamming(x, y)

Value

an integer, the Hamming distance between x and y.

Arguments

x, y

two ranks of size m.

Author

Julien Jacques

See Also

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

Examples

Run this code
x <- 1:5
y <- c(2, 3, 1, 4, 5)
distHamming(x, y)

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