Spearman's rank correlation coefficient

noun

A statistical measure that expresses two variables by correlation on a scale from 1 to -1.

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Meanings

nounSpearman's rank correlation coefficient (plural Spearman's rank correlation coefficients)

plural Spearman's rank correlation coefficients

  1. A statistical measure that expresses two variables by correlation on a scale from 1 to -1.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
spearman's rho

Origin

Created by Charles Spearman.

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