A weighted Kendall's tau statistic

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 17-24

  Shieh, Grace S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Correlation; Kendall's tau; Rank; U statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040635056     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(98)00006-6     Document Type: Article

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