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Kendall’s 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. New correlation coefficient, which generalizes Kendall’s correlation coefficients used traditionally in statistics, is suggested. The construction utilizes IF-sets.

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

    Przemysław Grzegorzewski

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

    Przemysław Grzegorzewski

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Grzegorzewski, P. Kendall’s correlation coefficient for vague preferences. Soft Comput 13, 1055–1061 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-008-0378-9

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