Compară metode

	Corelația rangurilor Tau a lui Kendall	Coeficientul de corelație moment-produs Pearson (r)
Domeniu	Statistică	Statistică
Familie	Hypothesis test	Hypothesis test
Anul apariției	1938	1895
Autorul original	Maurice G. Kendall	Karl Pearson
Tip	Nonparametric rank correlation	Parametric correlation
Sursa seminală	Kendall, M. G. (1938). A new measure of rank correlation. Biometrika, 30(1/2), 81–93.	Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical Power Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences (2nd ed.). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Denumiri alternative	Kendall tau, Kendall rank correlation, tau-b, tau-c	pearson r, product-moment correlation, bivariate correlation, Pearson Korelasyon Analizi
Înrudite	4	4
Rezumat	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.	The Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient (r) is a parametric measure of the direction and strength of the linear association between two continuous variables. Introduced by Karl Pearson in 1895, it remains the most widely used bivariate correlation statistic in the social, health, and natural sciences. The coefficient ranges from −1 (perfect negative linear relationship) to +1 (perfect positive), with 0 indicating no linear association.