Keywords and phrases: weighted rank correlation, unweighted rank correlation, robustness.
Received: April 8, 2024; Revised: April 19, 2024; Accepted: April 23, 2024; Published: April 27, 2024
How to cite this article: Ezz H. Abdelfattah, On comparing the robustness of weighted and unweighted rank correlation coefficients, Advances and Applications in Statistics 91(6) (2024), 799-811. https://doi.org/10.17654/0972361724042
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