Sample size requirements for estimating Pearson, Kendall and Spearman correlations

Psychometrika

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 23-28

  Bonett, Douglas G ^a   Wright, Thomas A ^b  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation; Interval estimation; Rank correlation; Sample size

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034147705     PISSN: 00333123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02294183     Document Type: Article

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