Rich said "Spearman's, especially, serve no end that I think of."
I'm probably taking this out of the context of the thread, but Spearman rho is a potentially useful statistic if you wish to measure the monotonicity of a relationship rather than the linearity. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl L. Wuensch, Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858-4353 Voice: 252-328-4102 Fax: 252-328-6283 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://core.ecu.edu/psyc/wuenschk/klw.htm . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
