Difference between revisions of "Kendall's Tau Test"
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==Description== | ==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. | ||
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.