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A measure of concordance between two random variables based on ranks.

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Correlation coefficients for ordered data: Kendall's Tau vs Polychoric vs Spearman's rho

It seems like for managing with ordered measurements researchers usually deal with Polychoric Correlation. (For example, for making matrix before doing Factor Analysis.) Why so? Kendall Tau Rank Corr …
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