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Bayesian Estimation of Kendall's tau Using a Latent Normal Approach

Methodology 2018-05-25 v2

Abstract

The rank-based association between two variables can be modeled by introducing a latent normal level to ordinal data. We demonstrate how this approach yields Bayesian inference for Kendall's rank correlation coefficient, improving on a recent Bayesian solution from asymptotic properties of the test statistic.

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@article{arxiv.1703.01805,
  title  = {Bayesian Estimation of Kendall's tau Using a Latent Normal Approach},
  author = {Johnny van Doorn and Alexander Ly and Maarten Marsman and Eric-Jan Wagenmakers},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.01805},
  year   = {2018}
}

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13 pages, 2 figures

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