permallows: an r package for mallows and generalized mallows models
;Ekhine Irurozki;Borja Calvo;Jose A. Lozano
open geospatial data, software and standards2016Vol. 71pp. 1-30
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Abstract
In this paper we present the R package PerMallows, which is a complete toolbox to work with permutations, distances and some of the most popular probability models for permutations: Mallows and the Generalized Mallows models. The Mallows model is an exponential location model, considered as analogous to the Gaussian distribution. It is based on the definition of a distance between permutations. The Generalized Mallows model is its best-known extension. The package includes functions for making inference, sampling and learning such distributions. The distances considered in PerMallows are Kendall's τ , Cayley, Hamming and Ulam.