Kendall test

/ˌkɛndl tɛst/

Definitions of Kendall test

1. noun

   any of several nonparametric measures of correlation (used when the assumptions of standard correlational analysis are not met)
   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