Portrait of Maurice Kendall
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Maurice Kendall (1907–2007) was a prominent British statistician renowned for his contributions to the field of statistics, particularly in the areas of nonparametric statistics and time series analysis. He is best known for developing several important statistical methodologies and for his work on the Kendall tau rank correlation coefficient, a measure of correlation between two variables that is based on the ranks of their values rather than their actual values.