Kendall tau
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Kendall tau distance — The Kendall tau distance is a metric that counts the number of pairwise disagreements between two lists. The larger the distance, the more dissimilar the two lists are. Kendall tau distance is also called bubble sort distance since it is… … Wikipedia
Kendall tau rank correlation coefficient — The Kendall tau rank correlation coefficient (or simply the Kendall tau coefficient, Kendall s tau; or tau test(s)) is a non parametric statistic used to measure the degree of correspondence between two rankings and assessing the significance of… … Wikipedia
Kendall — may refer to:Places;United Kingdom *Kendal, a town in the Lake District of England, after which several other places are named;Australia *Kendall, New South Wales, Australia;Canada *Kendal, Saskatchewan;Indonesia *Kendal Regency, a regency in… … Wikipedia
Tau (disambiguation) — Tau is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet.Tau may also refer to:In geography: * Tau, Norway, a small town in western Norway * Tău, two villages in Romania * Tau, Samoa (Taokinaū), an island in the Manuokinaa Island Group of American Samoa *… … Wikipedia
Kendall rank correlation coefficient — a rank correlation coefficient used when both variables represent ordinal data in a limited number of grades, such as the categories none, mild, moderate, and severe, so that multiple samples can be assigned to each grade; called also Kendall tau … Medical dictionary
Tau — (uppercase Τ, lowercase τ; el. Ταυ [taf] ) is the 19th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 300. This letter in English is pronounced IPA|/taʊ/, but in Modern Greek, this letter s name is pronounced… … Wikipedia
Kendall's W — (also known as Kendall s coefficient of concordance) is a non parametric statistic. It is a normalization of the statistic of the Friedman test, and can be used for assessing agreement among raters. Kendall s W ranges from 0 (no agreement) to 1… … Wikipedia
Kendall's Tau — Ein Rangkorrelationskoeffizient ist ein parameterfreies Maß für Korrelationen, das heißt, er misst, wie gut eine beliebige monotone Funktion den Zusammenhang zwischen zwei Variablen beschreiben kann, ohne irgendwelche Annahmen über die… … Deutsch Wikipedia
Kendall test — noun any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met) • Topics: ↑statistics • Hypernyms: ↑nonparametric statistic, ↑distribution free statistic • Hyponyms: ↑Kendall… … Useful english dictionary
Kendall rank correlation — noun a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings • Syn: ↑tau coefficient of correlation, ↑Kendall s tau • Topics: ↑statistics • Hypernyms: ↑Kendall test … Useful english dictionary
