The Use of Spearman's Footrule in Testing for Trend When the Data are Incomplete

Communications in Statistics Part B: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 193-213

  Alvo, Mayer ^a   Charbonneau, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Incomplete rankings; Missing observations; Rank correlation

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA ACQUISITION;

RANK CORRELATION; SPEARMAN'S FOOTRULE;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 0031062154     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610919708813374     Document Type: Article

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