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Hello. Has any further action been taken regarding implementing David Simcha's fast Kendall tau code (now found in the package pcaPP as cor.fk) into R-base? It is literally hundreds of times faster, although I am uncertain as to whether he wrote code for testing the significance of the parameter. The last mention I have seen of this was in 2010

Colleagues, I ran some nonparametric regressions in R (run in RedHat Linux), then a colleague repeated the analyses in SAS. When we obtained different results, I tested S-Plus (same Linux box). And, got yet different results. I replicated the results with a small dataset: DATA: 37.5 23 37.5 13 25 16 25 12 100 15 12.5 19 50 20 100 13 100 10 100 10 100 16 50 10 87.5

Hi, I need to calculate Kendall's tau for large data vectors (length > 100'000). Is somebody aware of a faster algorithm or package function than "cor(, method="kendall")"? There are ties in the data to be considered (Kendall's tau-b). Any suggestions? Regards Ferdinand

Hello, I can't find a package which calculates Kendall's tau-c. There is the package Kendall, but it only calcuates Kendall's tau-b. Here is the example from ttp://www2.chass.ncsu.edu/garson/pa765/assocordinal.htm. cityriots <- data.frame(citysize=c(1,1,2,2,3,3), riotsize=c(1,2,1,2,1,2), weight=c(4,2,2,3,0,4)) cityriots <- data.frame(lapply(cityriots,function(x)

Full_Name: Dirk Koschuetzki Version: 2.1.1 OS: source code Submission from: (NULL) (194.94.136.34) Hello, >From the source code (R-2.1.1, file: .../R-2.1.1/src/library/stats/R/) ****************************** cor.test.default <- function(x, y, alternative = c("two.sided", "less", "greater"), method = c("pearson", "kendall",

Full_Name: Marek Ancukiewicz Version: 2.10.1 OS: Linux Submission from: (NULL) (74.0.49.2) Both cor() and cor.test() incorrectly handle ordered variables with method="kendall", cor() incorrectly handles ordered variables for method="spearman" (method="person" always works correctly, while method="spearman" works for cor.test, but not for cor()). In

I discovered that the Kendall's tau calculation in R uses all pairwise comparisons which is O(n^2) and takes a long time for large vectors. I implemented a O(n*log(n)) algorithm based on merge-sort. Is this of interest to be included in core R? The code (fortran and R wrapper) is available in my package clinfun v0.9.7 (not exported in NAMESPACE). Thanks, Venkat -- Venkatraman E. Seshan,

I have 3 variables relating to the successful introductions of species to 95 different areas: introduction frequency; number of successes pre 1906; number of successes post 1906 The data are not normal, nor homo-skedatic, so I am using non-parametric statistics. I have calculated Kendall's tau between both introduction & successes pre 1906 (tau=0.3903) and introduction & successes

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 package PDF, but I could not find any useful information. As long as I see from the following link, there

Hi, I try to calculate Kendall's W coefficient and I have a bizarre error. little.app.mat<-matrix(c(1,3,4,2,6,5,2,4,3,1,5,6,3,2,5,1,5,4),nrow=3,byrow=TRUE) print(kendall.w(little.app.mat[-1,])) >>> Kendall's W for ordinal data >>> W = 0.7753623Error in if (is.na(x$p.table)) { : argument is of length zero

Full_Name: Dan Field Version: 1.6.2 OS: N/A Submission from: (NULL) (209.115.168.187) In kendall.c (library is ctest), the limits for the first loop in routine kendall_tau run from 0 through n-1, and the inner loop runs from 0 through i-1. This causes the each pair at index i to be compared with itself; my understanding is that there should only be n*(n-1)/2 pairs under consideration for

A search of the archives did not reveal an answer: For basic tests of association, where one has no a priori knowledge of the form of the relation or of the distributions of the variables, rank correlation seems like a good start. Why is cor.test() with Kendall and Spearman options relegated to the ctest package, rather than in the base package? Does this suggest that the developers consider

Hello, I thougth that there is a function which does the kendall test in R, I writed on the console apropos("kendall") and I didn't found anything can you tell me how could I do to use the kendall test? Thanks. _____________________________________________________________________________ l [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

> library(Kendall) > Kendall(1:3,1:3) WARNING: Error exit, tauk2. IFAULT = 12 <<<<<< tau = 1, 2-sided pvalue =1 I believe Kendall tau is well-defined for this case and the reported value is correct; isn't it a bug to give a warning? (And if, e.g., the pvalue is not well-defined in this case, wouldn't it be better to return NA or NaN or something?) Also,

hi, i have 2 lists of ranks for which i'd like to compute kendall tau. there are ties in the ranks which (to the best of my knowledge) means i cant use tau a but rather b or c. how does R handle that? are ties automatically detected (using corr.test()) and is tau b/c computed instead of tau a? also kendall does not work when values in list 1 do not occur in list 2 (and vice versa) - how does

Dear R maintainers, R is great. Now that I have that out of the way, I believe I have encountered a bug, or at least an inconsistency, in how Spearman and Kendall rank correlations are handled. Specifically, cor() and cor.test() do not produce the same answer when the data contain NAs. cor() treats the NAs as data, while cor.test() eliminates them. The option use="complete.obs" has

Hi, R! Question1: I am trying to correlate two vectors of numbers (two columns of microarray signal values) by using the non-parametric Spearman's rank correlation coefficient rho: > cor.test(V2.Signal,V3.Signal,method="spearman") but I get the error message: Error in if (q > (n^3 - n)/6) pspearman(q - 1, n, lower.tail = FALSE) else pspearman(q, : missing value

Dear R users I want to compute Kendall's Tau between two vectors x and y. But x and y may have zeros in the same position(s) and I wrote the following function to be sure to drop out those "double zeros" "cor.kendall" <- function(x,y) { nox <- c() noy <- c() # for (i in 1:length(x)) if (x[i]!= 0 | y[i] != 0) nox[length(nox)+1]<- x[i] for (i in

Dear I estimate a sample selection model using the Clayton copula and Burr and Gaussian marginal. I need to derive ther Kendall'sw tau from the concordance coefficient by integration. I came across a way to do that in R long time ago but cannot find it again. Can somewone tell me what to read and what to use? Thank you. Steven Yen

Hi every body: I need some help with kendall.global. The example in the manual seems not working well, and cannot used with my data, always the same error. data(mite) > mite.hel <- decostand(mite, "hel") > > # Reproduce the results shown in Table 2 of Legendre (2005), a single group > mite.small <- mite.hel[c(4,9,14,22,31,34,45,53,61,69),c(13:15,23)] >