Spearman's Footrule as a Measure of Disarray

Abstract

Spearman's rho and Kendall tau are related to two less widely used measures of association: Spearman's footrule and the minimum number of transitions. The means, variances, and limiting normality of all four metrics are derived.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 02, 1976
Accession Number
ADA030697

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  • Persi Diaconis
  • R. L. Graham

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  • Stanford University

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  • Algorithms
  • Computations
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  • Inequalities
  • Invariance
  • Inversion
  • Mathematics
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  • Normality
  • Permutations
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Sequences
  • Statistics
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