TAU COEFFICIENT OF CORRELATION

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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 ("tau coefficient of 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)

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