Effective use of Spearman's and Kendall's correlation coefficients forassociation between two measured traits

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 102, Issue , 2015, Pages 77-84

  Puth, Marie Therese ^a   Neuhäuser, Markus ^a   Ruxton, Graeme D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES KOBLENZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Null hypothesis testing; Pearson's product moment correlation coefficient; Power; Statistics; Type 1 error

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922309693     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.01.010     Document Type: Note

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