KENDALL RANK CORRELATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kendall rank correlation mean? 

• KENDALL RANK CORRELATION (noun)
  The noun KENDALL RANK CORRELATION has 1 sense:

1. a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings

  Familiarity information: KENDALL RANK CORRELATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KENDALL RANK CORRELATION (noun)

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Meaning:

A nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

Kendall's tau; Kendall rank correlation; tau coefficient of correlation

Hypernyms ("Kendall rank correlation" 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)