Concordance between two linear orders: The Spearman and Kendall coefficients revisited

Journal of Classification

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 269-295

  Monjardet, B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^b ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

Author keywords

Daniels's inequality; Kendall's tau; Linear order; Metric; Permutation; Spearman's rho

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031524909     PISSN: 01764268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s003579900013     Document Type: Article

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