Four correlation coefficients with a third blocking variable: Their efficacy, relative efficiency, and test statistics

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1835-1858

  Guo, Jiin Huarng ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Conditional independence; Fisher Yates correlation coefficient; Kendall's tau; Pearson's r; Rank correlation; Spearman's rho; Z transformation

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL TESTS; STATISTICS; Z TRANSFORMS;

CONDITIONAL INDEPENDENCE; FISHER-YATES CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; KENDALL TAU; PEARSON R; RANK CORRELATION; SPEARMAN RHO;

CORRELATION METHODS;

EID: 0041521143     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1081/STA-120022712     Document Type: Article

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