concordant

(adjective)

Agreeing; correspondent; in keeping with; agreeable with.

Related Terms

  • rank correlation

Examples of concordant in the following topics:

  • Lexington and Concord

    • A British attempt to seize military stores in Lexington and Concord led to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.
    • The Battles of Lexington and Concord are generally considered the start of the American Revolution.
    • General Gage knew that a powder magazine was stored in Concord, Massachusetts, and he ordered troops to seize these munitions.
    • On the night of April 18, 1775, General Gage sent 700 men to seize munitions stored by the colonial militia at Concord.
    • Shots were exchanged, eight minutemen were killed, the outnumbered colonial militia dispersed, and the British moved on to Concord.
  • Other Types of Correlation Coefficients

    • Other types of correlation coefficients include intraclass correlation and the concordance correlation coefficient.
    • The concordance correlation coefficient measures the agreement between two variables (e.g., to evaluate reproducibility or for inter-rater reliability).
    • Whereas Pearson's correlation coefficient is immune to whether the biased or unbiased version for estimation of the variance is used, the concordance correlation coefficient is not.
    • The concordance correlation coefficient is nearly identical to some of the measures called intraclass correlations.
    • Distinguish the intraclass and concordance correlation coefficients from previously discussed correlation coefficients.
  • Kongo

    • Nkondi (plural minkondi, zinkondi or nkondi with mi-concords, according to dialect) religious objects , frequently called "nail fetishes" because users often hammered nails into them, were made by the Kongo people of West Central Africa.
    • The nganga gathers materials, called nlongo (plural bilongo, milongo, or concord with mi-), which when assembled, will become the home of a spirit.
  • Rank Correlation

    • The observations are sadi to be concordant if the ranks for both elements agree—that is, if both $x_i > x_j$ and $y_i > y_j$, or if both $x_i < x_j$ and $y_i < y_j$.
    • The observations are neither concordant nor discordant if $x_i = x_j$ or $y_i = y_j$.
    • $\displaystyle{\tau = \frac{(\text{number of concordant pairs}) - (\text{number of discordant pairs})}{\frac{1}{2} n (n-1)}}$
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  • Comparing Two Populations: Independent Samples

    • Any pair of observations are said to be concordant if the ranks for both elements agree.
    • $\displaystyle{\tau = \frac{(\text{number of concordant pairs}) - (\text{number of discordant pairs})}{\frac{1}{2} n (n-1)}}$
  • The Battle of Bunker Hill

    • The Battle of Bunker Hill took place on June 17, 1775, following the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
    • The Massachusetts Committee of Safety, seeking to repeat the sort of propaganda victory it won following the battles at Lexington and Concord, commissioned a report of the battle to send to England.
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

    • Additionally, the concordance rate of OCD among identical twins is around 57%; however, the concordance rate for fraternal twins is 22% (Bolton, Rijsdijk, O’Connor, Perrin, & Eley, 2007).
  • The Second Continental Congress

    • By the time the Second Continental Congress met, the American Revolutionary War had already started with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
  • Colonization

    • British soldiers, intending to capture a colonial arms depot at Concord, Massachusetts, clashed with colonial militiamen.
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