KendallRankCorrelation[xlist, ylist] gives Kendall's rank correlation coefficient \[Tau] for the real-valued vectors xlist and ylist.

As discussed in "Exact and Approximate Results", Mathematica can handle approximate real numbers with any number of digits. In general, the precision of an approximate real ...

$MinNumber gives the minimum positive arbitrary-precision number that can be represented on a particular computer system.

int MLSetYieldFunction (MLINK link, MLYieldFunctionObject yf) installs the yield function yf for the link referenced by link.

WindowMargins is a notebook option that specifies what margins to leave around the window that is used to display the notebook on the screen.

Mathematica 8 adds major new areas, including probability and statistics, graphs and networks, computational finance, control systems, wavelet analysis, and group theory. ...

PlotMarkers is an option for graphics functions like ListPlot and ListLinePlot that specifies what markers to draw at the points plotted.

MLYieldFunctionObject is a MathLink type that describes a function pointer to a function taking an MLINK object as an argument and a MLYieldParameters object as an argument ...

This section is designed to discuss how to make compiled functions run efficiently. It will cover features that make them run faster, as well as problems that can make them ...

FactorialMoment[list, r] gives the r\[Null]^th moment of the elements in the list.FactorialMoment[dist, r] gives the r\[Null]^th moment of the symbolic distribution ...