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Spearman2 Statistics.|ˈspɪəmən|
The name of Charles Edward Spearman (1863–1943), English psychologist, used attrib. and in the possessive to designate a coefficient he devised as a measure of the degree of agreement between two rankings, being their product-moment correlation coefficient; symbol ρ or R.
1907Drapers' Company Res. Mem. (Biometric Ser.) iv. 22 There is a further very serious indictment to be made against Spearman's R... R retains a constant value for wide variations in ρ12. 1942Biometrika XXXII. 277 The Spearman coefficient ρ may be regarded as a sample grade correlation. Ibid. 278 The error involved in using Spearman's ρ from a small sample. 1970Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. LXXXIII. 91 A Spearman rank correlation coefficient..between the median latency scores on the last day of training and the mean of the median latencies over the three days of testing produced a value of -·3. |