[Rd] kendall's tau-b computation (PR#2742)

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

dan.field at av.com writes:

> In kendall.c (library is ctest), the limits for the first loop in routine
> kendall_tau run from 0 through n-1, and the inner loop runs from 0 through i-1. 
> This causes the each pair at index i to be compared with itself; my
> understanding is that there should only be n*(n-1)/2 pairs under consideration
> for concordance, discordance, and ties.

??? 

Are you saying that j==i becomes true, when j runs from 0 to i-1?

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