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Kendall tau distance

Kendall tau distance noun: a distance function that counts the pairwise disagreements between two ranking lists and thus determines how dissimilar the lists are.

Noun

Kendall tau distance (plural Kendall tau distances)

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

Forms of Kendall tau distance

pluralKendall tau distances

Origin of Kendall tau distance

Devised by Maurice Kendall.

Questions about Kendall tau distance

What does Kendall tau distance mean?
Kendall tau distance means a distance function that counts the pairwise disagreements between two ranking lists and thus determines how dissimilar the lists are.
What part of speech is Kendall tau distance?
Kendall tau distance is a noun.
What is the plural of Kendall tau distance?
The plural of Kendall tau distance is Kendall tau distances.

Words near Kendall tau distance in the dictionary

  1. Kendall
  2. Kendall County
  3. Kendall notation
  4. Kendall rank correlation coefficient
  5. Kendall rank correlation coefficients
  6. Kendall tau distance
  7. Kendall's notation
  8. kendama
  9. kendamas
  10. kendang
  11. kendangs

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