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An Investigation of two Sequence‐Comparison Statistics
Author(s) -
Gordon A. D.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
australian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-842X
pISSN - 0004-9581
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-842x.1982.tb00838.x
Subject(s) - statistics , measure (data warehouse) , sequence (biology) , zero (linguistics) , summary statistics , computer science
Summary This paper describes an investigation of two statistics which compare two ordered sequences of objects by providing a measure of the discordance when the sequences are slotted together. Configurations having zero discordance are described. Plausible null models for data are postulated, and an account is given of a simulation study which investigated the distribution of the statistics when these models were used in the analysis of physical logging data from two wells.