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Ordered Binary Trees Constructed through an Application of Kendall's Tau

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Richard Degerman
Richard Degerman*
Affiliation:
University of California, Irvine
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Requests for reprints should be sent to: Richard Degerman, School of Social Sciences, University of California, lrvine, CA 92717.
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Abstract

A procedure is described for orienting the nodes of a binary tree to maximize the Kendall rank order correlation (tau) between node order and a given external criterion. The procedure is computationally efficient and is based on application of an ordered set of node tests.

Keywords

cluster analysis
Type
Notes And Comments
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 47 , Issue 4 , December 1982 , pp. 523 - 527
Copyright
Copyright © 1982 The Psychometric Society

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