Spearman's rank correlation coefficient


Spearman's rank correlation coefficient

[¦spir·mənz ¦raŋk ‚kär·ə′lā·shən ‚kō·ə‚fish·ənt] (statistics) A statistic used as a measure of correlation in nonparametric statistics when the data are in ordinal form; a product moment correlation coefficient. Also known as Spearman's rho.