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- ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Kurt Hornik
- ##
- ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
- ## any later version.
- ##
- ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
- ## General Public License for more details.
- ##
- ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- ## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
- ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
-
- ## usage: spearman (x [, y])
- ##
- ## Computes Spearman's rank correlation coefficient rho for each of the
- ## variables specified by the input arguments.
- ##
- ## For matrices, each row is an observation and each column a variable;
- ## vectors are always observations and may be row or column vectors.
- ##
- ## spearman (x) is equivalent to spearman (x, x).
- ##
- ## For two data vectors x and y, Spearman's rho is the correlation of
- ## the ranks of x and y.
- ##
- ## If x and y are drawn from independent distributions, rho has zero
- ## mean and variance 1 / (n - 1), and is asymptotically normally
- ## distributed.
-
- ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at>
- ## Description: Spearman's rank correlation rho
-
- function rho = spearman (x, y)
-
- if ((nargin < 1) || (nargin > 2))
- usage ("spearman (x [, y])");
- endif
-
- if (rows (x) == 1)
- x = x';
- endif
- n = rows (x);
-
- if (nargin == 1)
- rho = cor (ranks (x));
- else
- if (rows (y) == 1)
- y = y';
- endif
- if (rows (y) != n)
- error (["spearman: ", ...
- "x and y must have the same number of observations"]);
- endif
- rho = cor (ranks (x), ranks (y));
- endif
-
- endfunction
-