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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")
an integer, the Kendall distance between x and y.
two ranks of size m.
type of the rank representation ("ordering" ou "ranking").
Julien Jacques
A New Measure of Rank Correlation, M. G. Kendall
Other distance: distCayley(), distHamming(), distSpearman()
distCayley()
distHamming()
distSpearman()
x <- 1:5 y <- c(2, 3, 1, 4, 5) distKendall(x, y, type = "ordering")
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