Re: [R] Kendall package tau-a, b, and c

2012-08-20 Thread Rui Barradas
Hello, I've followed your link (thanks) and in the presence of ties the value of R's cor.test, method = kendall, in package stats and kendall_tau_b in the link are the same. If you have ties, cor.test will issue a warning but that is relative to the p-value only, the reported tau, under

[R] Kendall package tau-a, b, and c

2012-08-19 Thread Kota Hattori
Hi all, I would like to ask a question related to Kendall package. I ran Kendall (x,y) and saw the results. But I am not sure which tau values R reported. I have ties in my data set, so I want tau-b. Can anybody tell how Kendall package is calculating tau values? I have looked at the