A comparison of approximations to the distribution of average kendall tau

DOI10.1080/03610928408828887zbMath0598.62047MaRDI QIDQ3732743

Mayer Alvo, Paul Cabilio

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928408828887

zbMATH Keywords

tables; concordance; asymptotic distribution; rankings; Bahadur efficiency; exact distribution; rank correlation; Pitman efficiency; Friedman test; approximate Bahadur slope; average Kendall tau test; complete randomness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62G10: Nonparametric hypothesis testing

62F07: Statistical ranking and selection procedures

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