On the properties of some nonparametric concordance measures in the discrete case

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 541-554

  Mesfioui, Mhamed ^a   Tajar, Abdelouahid ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concordance measures; Concordance order; Copulas; Dependence properties; Fr chet bounds; Monotone dependence

Indexed keywords

EID: 20444431617     PISSN: 10485252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10485250500038967     Document Type: Article

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