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seqLLCP {TraMineR} | R Documentation

## 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

`seqdist`

### 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,])

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