Computing Correlations Based on Ranks

Measuring Correlation, Association, Reliability and Validity

36 Computing Correlations Based on Ranks

Computing Spearman’s Rank Order Statistic and Kendall’s Tau B

Using Spearman Rank

Kenadll’s tau is a method by which to compute the consistency of pairs of ranks – concordance and discordance

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