Open AccessCorrelation between arrays in a table of correlations
Author(s) -
C. Spearman
Publication year - 1922
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series a, containing papers of a mathematical and physical character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9150
pISSN - 0950-1207
DOI - 10.1098/rspa.1922.0027
Subject(s) - table (database) , set (abstract data type) , correlation , mathematics , moment (physics) , statistics , square (algebra) , product (mathematics) , computer science , data mining , physics , geometry , programming language , classical mechanics
Two recent papers in these Proceedings have dealt with certain problems of probability which are of very great importance for psychology in particular, but in themselves are quite general. As both papers made reference to some of my own, the following considerations may not only be a further positive contribution to the topic, but incidentally serve to clear up some misunderstandings. Suppose that the product moment coefficients of correlation have been determined between any set of variablesa, b, c, d , ...z , and have been set forth in a square Table thus:—