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Once the ranks for the two variables are found, we apply the formula for the correlation to the ranks as follows: Both Spearman’s rank and Pearson’s correlation tests share the purpose of assessing ...

This article proposes two estimators of the correlation coefficient, ρ, when statisticians will not construct a master file on individuals because of confidentiality issues. The approach depends on ...

A coefficient to measure association between two random variables, each distributed on the surface of the unit sphere in p-dimensional space, is proposed, analogous to an existing correlation ...