English Explanatory Dictionary

Kendall tau distance

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A distance function that counts the pairwise disagreements between two ranking lists and thus determines how dissimilar the lists are.

Word forms

Kendall tau distance Kendall tau distances

Etymology

Devised by Maurice Kendall.

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