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 ...

The CORR procedure in base SAS software provides several nonparametric measures of association and associated tests. It computes Spearman's rank-order correlation, Kendall's tau-b, and Hoeffding's ...

Let Q = (Q₁ ,..., Qn) be a random vector drawn from the uniform distribution on the set of all n! permutations of {1, 2, ..., n]. Let Z = (Z₁ ,..., Zn), where Zj is the mean zero variance one random ...

Biometrika is primarily a journal of statistics in which emphasis is placed on papers containing original theoretical contributions of direct or potential value in applications. From time to time, ...

When you specify the MEASURES option in the TABLES statement, PROC FREQ computes several statistics that describe the association between the two variables of the contingency table. The following are ...