Maurice George Kendall (Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, September 6, 1907 - Redhill, Surrey, England, March 29, 1983) was a leading mathematician. September 6 is the 249th day of the year (250th in leap years). ... 1907 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in Leap years). ... 1983 is an integer and composite number that represents a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A mathematician is a person whose area of study and research is mathematics. ...
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MacTutor: Maurice George Kendall (http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Kendall_Maurice.html)
David George Kendall (born 15 January 1918) is a British statistician, who has spent much of his academic life in the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge.
Kendall was born in Ripon, North Yorkshire, and was educated at Ripon Grammar School before attending Queen's College, Oxford, graduating in 1943.
A daughter is Bridget Kendall, a BBC news correspondent.
The statistic described here is also known as Kendall's τ, which is different from Spearman's rank correlation coefficient.
We see that there is some correlation between the two rankings but the correlation is far from perfect, and we would like some way of objectively measuring the degree of correspondence.
Kendall, M. (1938) "A New Measure of Rank Correlation", Biometrica, 30, 81-89.
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