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Research Article

A simple consistent Bayes factor for testing the Kendall rank correlation coefficient

Shen ZhangDepartment of Management Science and Statistics, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio,TXUSAView further author information
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Keying YeDepartment of Management Science and Statistics, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio,TXUSAORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1983-0675View further author information
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Min WangDepartment of Management Science and Statistics, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio,TXUSACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 888-903 | Received 25 May 2022, Accepted 07 Sep 2022, Published online: 19 Sep 2022

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