Kendall test

Types:

Kendall partial rank correlation

a nonparametric measure of partial correlation

coefficient of concordance

a coefficient of agreement (concordance) between different sets of rank orderings of the same set of things

Kendall rank correlation, Kendall's tau, tau coefficient of correlation

a nonparametric measure of the agreement between two rankings

Type of:

distribution free statistic, nonparametric statistic

a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn