A weighted rank measure of correlation

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 515-529

  Da Costa, Joaquim Pinto ^a   Soares, Carlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Correlation; Linear rank statistics; Ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 30344470160     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: 1467842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2005.00413.x     Document Type: Article

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