Kendall's tau estimator for bivariate zero-inflated count data

Elisa Perrone (Corresponding author), Edwin R. van den Heuvel, Zhuozhao Zhan

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Abstract

This paper extends the work of Pimentel et al. (2015), presenting an estimator of Kendall's τ for bivariate zero-inflated count data. We provide achievable bounds of our proposed estimator and suggest how to estimate them, thereby making the estimator useful in practice.

Original languageEnglish
Article number109858
Number of pages6
JournalStatistics and Probability Letters
Volume199
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2023

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We are grateful to two anonymous reviewers and the editor for their careful reading and thoughtful comments and suggestions on an earlier version of the paper.

Funding

We are grateful to two anonymous reviewers and the editor for their careful reading and thoughtful comments and suggestions on an earlier version of the paper.

Keywords

  • Bivariate zero-inflated count data
  • Fréchet–Hoeffding bounds
  • Kendall's tau

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