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Measures of partial association of any order are defined for ordinal measures using the notions of variation and covariation of ordinal measures. They are equivalent to partial correlation and regression coefficients computed on signed differences of pairs of observations. Kendall's and first-order partial and Somers's d and first-order partial d are special cases of the proposed measures.
Roland K. Hawkes (Mon,) studied this question.