Alternatives to Pearson's and Spearman's Correlation Coefficients
General Mathematics
2008-09-18 v1
Abstract
This article presents several alternatives to Pearson's correlation coefficient and many examples. In the samples where the rank in a discrete variable counts more than the variable values, the mixtures that we propose of Pearson's and Spearman's correlation coefficients give better results.
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@article{arxiv.0805.0383,
title = {Alternatives to Pearson's and Spearman's Correlation Coefficients},
author = {Florentin Smarandache},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.0383},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
9 pages, 8 tables, one scatter plot