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the wikipedia article explains the Kendall tau edit distance but doesn’t say too much about possible applications. When or for what do you use the tau distance?
I’m searching for real world examples, not invented examples of mathematics.
Kendall Tau can be used as a metric to compare similarities between search results. For example, one can compare how close the top-10 results produced by Google and Bing (for the same query) are.