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BlairLacy

Calculate l


Description

Calculate Blair and Lacy's l.

Usage

BlairLacy(V)

Arguments

V

A frequency vector

Details

This function calculates Blair and Lacy's l, a measure of concentration based on linear Euclidean distances. This function follows the presentation by Blair and Lacy 2000. The measure l-squared by Blair and Lacy is implemented as lsquared.

Value

The function returns the l.

Author(s)

Didier Ruedin

References

Blair, J., and M. Lacy. 2000. Statistics of Ordinal Variation. Sociological Methods \& Research 28 (3): 251-280.

See Also

Examples

# Sample data
V <- c(30,40,210,130,530,50,10)
BlairLacy(V)

agrmt

Calculate Concentration and Dispersion in Ordered Rating Scales

v1.42.4
MIT + file LICENSE
Authors
Didier Ruedin [aut, cre] Clem Aeppli [ctb]
Initial release
2020-08-29

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