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Kendall's distance measures the depth of the most recent common infector (MRCI) for each pair of nodes with respect to the source (patient 0).

Usage

kendall(tree)

Arguments

tree

A data frame representing a transmission tree, with the first column containing the infector IDs and the second the infectee IDs.

Value

A square, symmetric matrix of Kendall's distances between nodes.

References

A Metric to Compare Transmission Trees - M Kendall · 2018

See also

Examples

tree <- data.frame(from = c(1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3), to = c(2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7))
kendall(tree)
#>   1 2 3 4 5 6 7
#> 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
#> 2 0 1 0 1 1 0 0
#> 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 1
#> 4 0 1 0 2 1 0 0
#> 5 0 1 0 1 2 0 0
#> 6 0 0 1 0 0 2 1
#> 7 0 0 1 0 0 1 2