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KENDALL TEST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Kendall test" is a kind of...):
distribution free statistic; nonparametric statistic (a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn)
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)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Kendall test"):
Kendall partial rank correlation (a nonparametric measure of partial correlation)
coefficient of concordance (a coefficient of agreement (concordance) between different sets of rank orderings of the same set of things)
Kendall's tau; Kendall rank correlation; tau coefficient of correlation (a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings)
