Difference between revisions of "Kendall's Tau Test"

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==Description==
 
==Description==
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* It is a statistic test used to measure the ordinal association between two measured quantities.
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* It is a measure of rank correlation: the similarity of the orderings of the data when ranked by each of the quantities.
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* Kendall correlation between two variables will be high when observations have a similar rank.
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* It will be low when observations have a dissimilar rank between the two variables.

Revision as of 08:46, 3 May 2017

KENDALLSTAUTEST(Range1,Range2,alpha,NewTableFlag)


  • is the array of x values.
  • is the array of x values.
  • is the value from 0 to 1.
  • is either TRUE or FALSE. TRUE for getting results in a new cube. FALSE will display results in the same cube.

Description

  • It is a statistic test used to measure the ordinal association between two measured quantities.
  • It is a measure of rank correlation: the similarity of the orderings of the data when ranked by each of the quantities.
  • Kendall correlation between two variables will be high when observations have a similar rank.
  • It will be low when observations have a dissimilar rank between the two variables.