Meaning | Any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met). |
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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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Narrower | Kendall partial rank correlation | A nonparametric measure of partial correlation |
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coefficient of concordance | A coefficient of agreement (concordance) between different sets of rank orderings of the same set of things |
tau coefficient of correlation, Kendall's tau, Kendall rank correlation | A nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings |
Broader | nonparametric statistic, distribution free statistic | A statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn |
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