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Data & Analytics · Advanced

Spearman Rank Correlation (ρ)

A nonparametric correlation computed on ranks, measuring the strength of a monotonic relationship.

Definition

Spearman's correlation is robust to outliers and suits ordinal data or nonlinear but monotonic relationships.

Exam tip

Ordinal data or monotonic nonlinear relationships = Spearman instead of Pearson.

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