Title :
The Spearman rank correlation coefficient between intuitionistic fuzzy sets
Author :
Szmidt, Eulalia ; Kacprzyk, Janusz
Author_Institution :
Syst. Res. Inst., Polish Acad. of Sci., Warsaw, Poland
Abstract :
This paper is a continuation of our previous work on Pearson´s coefficient r and we introduce the concept of the Spearman correlation coefficient between Atanassov´s intuitionistic fuzzy sets (A-IFSs, for short) to measure the degree of association between A-IFSs when the assumption that the data distributions are normal is not valid or when data are in the form of ranks.
Keywords :
correlation theory; data analysis; decision making; fuzzy set theory; Atanassov intuitionistic fuzzy sets; Spearman rank correlation coefficient; association degree; data distributions; Data analysis; Decision making; Entropy; Fuzzy sets; Information processing; Statistics; Voting;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Systems (IS), 2010 5th IEEE International Conference
Conference_Location :
London
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5163-0
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5164-7
DOI :
10.1109/IS.2010.5548399
