kendall's tau

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   a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings

   Synonymstau coefficient of correlationKendall rank correlation

   BroaderKendall test

   statistics

Questions about kendall's tau

What does kendall's tau mean?

kendall's tau means "a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings".

What is another word for kendall's tau?

Close synonyms include tau coefficient of correlation, Kendall rank correlation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.