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Which of the following is not the feature of Spearman's rank correlation method ?

Spearman's coefficient is a non-parametric measure computed from observation ranks. Like Pearson's coefficient, it ranges from −1 to +1, but Pearson's coefficient does not…

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Which of the following is not the feature of Spearman's rank correlation method ?

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Spearman's coefficient is a non-parametric measure computed from observation ranks. Like Pearson's coefficient, it ranges from −1 to +1, but Pearson's coefficient does not in general use ranks. The rank differences sum to zero because both sets of ranks sum to the same total.

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