----- Original Message -----
From: Donald F. Burrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Robert Hamer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 1999 12:13 PM
Subject: Re: Correlation conversion
> On 22 Dec 1999, Robert Hamer wrote, in response to haytham siala's
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> question:
>
> HS >Can anyone please tell me how to convert a Kendal-tau correlation to a
> HS >Pearson correlation?
>
> RH> It is easier to get a camel through the eye of a needle
> RH> than to convert a Tau to a Pearson correlation.
>
> I believe the original of this quote referred to "the Eye of the Needle",
> a particularly narrow (mainly pedestrian) gate into the walled city of
> Jerusalem. Is that the image you intended? (I know that some people
> tend to take quotations from that source rather more literally than one
> suspects they were intended...)
> -- Don.
Wow. Never knew that! Would it follow from this question that the particular
eye of the particular needle makes a difference on the relative difficulty
of a Tau to Pearson conversion? (That is it might be harder than getting a
camel through the narrow gate but still easier than getting a camel through
an eye of a real needle?)
