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1. Consider a population distributed according to two variates x, y. Two members (x 1, y 1,) and (x 2, y 2) of the population will be called concordant if both values of one member are greater than the corresponding values of the other one, that is if
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Höffding, W. (1994). On the Distribution of the Rank Correlation Coefficient τ When the Variates are not Independent. In: Fisher, N.I., Sen, P.K. (eds) The Collected Works of Wassily Hoeffding. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0865-5_7
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