seqLLCP: Compute the length of the longest common prefix of two sequences
Description
Returns the length of the longest common prefix of two sequences. This attribute is described in Elzinga (2008).
Usage
seqLLCP(seq1, seq2)
Value
an integer being the length of the longest common prefix of the two sequences.
Arguments
seq1
a sequence from a sequence object.
seq2
a sequence from a sequence object.
References
Elzinga, Cees H. (2008). Sequence analysis: Metric representations of categorical time
series. Technical Report, Department of Social Science Research Methods, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
data(famform)
famform.seq <- seqdef(famform)
## The LCP's length between sequences 1 and 2## in the famform sequence object is 2seqLLCP(famform.seq[1,],famform.seq[2,])