Smooth extensions of Pearsons's product moment correlation and Spearman's rho

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 171-177

  Rayner, J C W ^a   Best, D J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Categorical data; Components; Orthonormal polynomial; Partition; Sparse data; Two way data

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030588037     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-7152(95)00216-2     Document Type: Article

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