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Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient for Vague Preferences

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The problem of measuring association between preference systems in situations with missing information or noncomparable outputs is discussed. A new generalization of Spearman’s Rho is suggested. Moreover, it is shown how to apply the suggested coefficient for testing independence.

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  1. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Przemysław Grzegorzewski

  2. Faculty of Math. and Information Sci., Warsaw University of Technology, Plac Politechniki 1, 00-661, Warsaw, Poland

    Przemysław Grzegorzewski & Paulina Ziembińska

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  1. Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University, P.O. box 260, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Henning Christiansen

  2. Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing, Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, 9000, Ghent, Belgium

    Guy De Tré

  3. Computer Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University (METU), 06531, Ankara, Türkiye

    Adnan Yazici

  4. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science, Newelska 6, 01-447, Warsaw, Poland

    Slawomir Zadrozny

  5. Department of Computer Science, Roskilde University, Building 42.1, P.O Box 260, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Troels Andreasen

  6. Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Niels Bohrs Vey 8, H321, 6700, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Henrik Legind Larsen

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Grzegorzewski, P., Ziembińska, P. (2011). Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient for Vague Preferences. In: Christiansen, H., De Tré, G., Yazici, A., Zadrozny, S., Andreasen, T., Larsen, H.L. (eds) Flexible Query Answering Systems. FQAS 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7022. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24764-4_30

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