Research ArticleOpen accessIn the keywordsA New Weighted Rank CorrelationTahani A. Maturi, Ezz H. AbdelfattahProblem Statement: There have been many cases in real life where two independent sources have ranked n objects, with the interest focused on agreement in the top rankings. Spearman's rho and Kendall's tau coefficients assigned equal weights to all rankings. As a result, the literature proposed several weighted correlation coefficients with emphasis on the top rankings, including the top-down, weighted … …Journal of Mathematics and Statistics, Vol. 4, Issue 4 · 31 Dec 2008 · 8,826 accessesView PDFCite