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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)

Arguments

seq1

a sequence from a sequence object.

seq2

a sequence from a sequence object.

Value

an integer being the length of the longest common prefix of the two sequences.

References

Elzinga, Cees H. (2008). Sequence analysis: Metric representations of categorical time series. Technical Report, Department of Social Science Research Methods, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

See Also

Examples

data(famform)
famform.seq <- seqdef(famform)

## The LCP's length between sequences 1 and 2
## in the famform sequence object is 2
seqLLCP(famform.seq[1,],famform.seq[2,])

TraMineR

Trajectory Miner: a Toolbox for Exploring and Rendering Sequences

v2.2-1
GPL (>= 2)
Authors
Alexis Gabadinho [aut, cph], Matthias Studer [aut, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6269-1412>), Nicolas M"{u}ller [aut], Reto B"{u}rgin [aut], Pierre-Alexandre Fonta [aut], Gilbert Ritschard [aut, cre, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7776-0903>)
Initial release
2020-10-24

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