On 12 Jun 2001 08:43:53 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Monica De Stefani)
wrote:
> When I aplly Kendall tau or Kendall's partial tau to a time series do
> I have to calcolate ranks or not?
> In fact a time series has a natural temporal order.
... but you are not partialing out time. Surely.
Your program that does the Kendall tau must do some
ranking, as part of the algorithm. Why do you think you
might have to calculate ranks?
--
Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html
=================================================================
Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about
the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at
http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/
=================================================================
