A new rank correlation coefficient with application to the consensus ranking problem

Journal of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 17-28

  Emond, Edward J ^a   Mason, David W ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEFENCE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Kemeny Snell distance; Kendall s tau

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949881961     PISSN: 10579214     EISSN: 10991360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mcda.313     Document Type: Article

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