Vertaile menetelmiä

	Kendallin taun järjestyskorrelaatio	ROC-analyysi (Receiver Operating Characteristic)
Tieteenala	Tilastotiede	Tilastotiede
Menetelmäperhe	Hypothesis test	Hypothesis test
Syntyvuosi	1938	1954 (signal detection); 1982 (AUC formalization)
Kehittäjä	Maurice G. Kendall	Peterson, Birdsall & Fox (signal detection theory); Hanley & McNeil (medical statistics)
Tyyppi	Nonparametric rank correlation	Diagnostic accuracy evaluation
Alkuperäislähde	Kendall, M. G. (1938). A new measure of rank correlation. Biometrika, 30(1/2), 81–93.	Hanley, J. A., & McNeil, B. J. (1982). The meaning and use of the area under a receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve. Radiology, 143(1), 29–36.
Rinnakkaisnimet	Kendall tau, Kendall rank correlation, tau-b, tau-c	ROC curve analysis, AUC analysis, sensitivity-specificity analysis, diagnostic accuracy analysis
Liittyvät	4	4
Tiivistelmä	Kendall's tau is a nonparametric measure of the ordinal association between two variables. It quantifies how consistently the relative ordering of one variable matches the ordering of another across all observation pairs, making it robust to outliers and suitable for ordinal or non-normally distributed data.	ROC analysis evaluates how well a continuous or ordinal test variable discriminates between two binary outcome classes. By plotting the true positive rate (sensitivity) against the false positive rate (1 − specificity) across all decision thresholds, it produces a curve whose area under the curve (AUC) quantifies overall discriminative power, ranging from 0.5 (chance) to 1.0 (perfect discrimination).