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KENDALL'S TAU
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
A nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings
Synonyms:
Kendall's tau; Kendall rank correlation; tau coefficient of correlation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Kendall's tau" is a kind of...):
Kendall test (any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met))
Domain category:
statistics (a branch of applied mathematics concerned with the collection and interpretation of quantitative data and the use of probability theory to estimate population parameters)