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Spearmans formula
Message posted by Mark (via 150.204.254.140) on September 28, 2001 at 10:16 AM (ET)
Does anyone have any idea where the formula comes from?
I am trying to research it and cant find any explanation anywhere. All the books I can find just state the formula without explaning where it comes from
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Re: Spearmans formula
Message posted by Jack Tomsky (via 208.249.113.130) on September 28, 2001 at 7:33 PM (ET)
Spearman's correlation coefficient is the usual correlation after you replace the data by their respective ranks.
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