[Rd] kendall's tau-b computation (PR#2742)
Peter Dalgaard BSA
p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk
Tue Apr 8 16:25:54 MEST 2003
dan.field at av.com writes:
> In kendall.c (library is ctest), the limits for the first loop in routine
> kendall_tau run from 0 through n-1, and the inner loop runs from 0 through i-1.
> This causes the each pair at index i to be compared with itself; my
> understanding is that there should only be n*(n-1)/2 pairs under consideration
> for concordance, discordance, and ties.
???
Are you saying that j==i becomes true, when j runs from 0 to i-1?
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