Correlating and predicting psychiatric symptom ratings: Spearman's v versus Kendall's tau correlation

Journal of Psychiatric Research

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 97-104

  Arndt, Stephan ^a,b   Turvey, Carolyn ^a,b   Andreasen, Nancy C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Methods; Predicting outcome; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033044719     PISSN: 00223956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3956(98)90046-2     Document Type: Article

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