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theta2tau, tau2theta: Kendall's rank correlation coefficient

Description

Kendall's rank correlation coefficient and its inverse.

Usage

theta2tau(theta, type)
tau2theta(tau, type)

Arguments

theta

the dependency parameter. It can be either a scalar, a vector or a matrix and has to lie within a certain interval, i.e. \(\theta \in [1, \infty)\) for the Gumbel and Joe family, \(\theta \in (0, \infty)\) for the Clayton and Frank family and \(\theta \in [0, 1)\) for the Ali-Mikhail-Haq family.

tau

Kendall's rank correlation coefficient. It can be either a scalar, a vector or a matrix and it is to ensure, that \(\tau \in [0,1)\).

type

all types are available, see phi for an overview of implemented families.

Examples

Run this code
# computation of the dependency parameter
x = runif(10)
theta = tau2theta(x, type = 1)

# computation of kendall's tau
y = runif(10, 1, 100)
tau = theta2tau(y, type = 1)

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