Kendall’s Rank Correlation in R-Correlation Test
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Kendall’s Rank Correlation in R, Kendall’s rank correlation coefficient is suitable for the paired ranks as in the case of Spearman’s rank correlation.
The condition is that both the variables X and Y be measured on at least an ordinal scale.
One advantage of Kendall Tau over Spearman’s rank correlation is that tau can be generalized to a partial correlation coefficient which is not possible in the case of rs.
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Procedure
The procedure of Kendall τ consists of the following steps.
Step1:- Arrange the rank of the first set (X) in ascending order and rearrange the ranks of the second set (Y) in such a way that n pairs of rank remain the same.
Step2:-The ranks of X are in the natural order. Now we are left to how many pairs of ranks in the set Y are in a natural order and how many are not.
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A number is said to be in natural order if it is smaller than the succeeding number and is coded as +1. And also if it is greater than its succeeding number then it will not be taken as a natural order and will be coded as -1.
Step3:-Find the sum of all coded values.
Step4:- The formula for Kendall tau is
τ=2S/n(n-1)
Properties
Kendall’s tau range between -1 to 1.
If n is large Kendall’s τ equal to the 2/3 rd of Spearman’s rank correlation.
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If τ=1 indicates the ranking of X is in the same order as the ranking of Y.
If τ=-1 indicates the ranking of X is in reverse order of the ranking of Y.
Kendall’s Rank Correlation in R
Let’s see how to execute Kendall’s τ in R.
x<-c(1,2,3,2,1,3,4,2,5,2,6,5,5) y<-c(5,5,6,2,1,4,4,2,1,2,1,5,5) res<-cor.test(x,y, method="kendall") res
Kendall’s rank correlation tau
data: x and y z = 0.12931, p-value = 0.8971 alternative hypothesis: true tau is not equal to 0 sample estimates: tau 0.03030651
Conclusion
The correlation coefficient between x and y is 0.03030651and the p-value is 0.8971.
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