RANK CORRELATION BETWEEN TWO VARIABLES, ONE OF WHICH IS RANKED, THE OTHER DICHOTOMOUS

1 January 1947

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biometrika

Vol. 34 (3-4) , 292-296
https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/34.3-4.292

Abstract

The use of [tau] for tied rankings (Kendall; Biometrika, 1946) is extended to the case where one variable is ranked and the other expressed as a dichotomy, the dichotomy being viewed as a ranking in which all data are tied at two values only. In applying the method to the case of the 2X2 table, a slight discrepancy is noted with the usual x 1 calculation.

Keywords

BIOMETRY

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THE DISTRIBUTION OF KENDALL'S τ COEFFICIENT OF RANK CORRELATION ON RANKINGS CONTAINING TIES
Biometrika, 1947
A NEW MEASURE OF RANK CORRELATION
Biometrika, 1938