Please define concordant and discordant pairs and ties.

What will be an ideal response?


A concordant pair is a pair in which one individual is higher on both variables than the other case. A discordant pair is one in which one case is lower on one of the variables but higher on the other. A tied pair is a pair in which both observations have the same value on one or both variables.

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