rank correlation

collocation in English

meaningsofrankandcorrelation

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rank
noun
uk
/ræŋk/
us
/ræŋk/
a position in an organization, such as the army, showing the importance of the person ...
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correlation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌkɒr.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
us
/ˌkɔːr.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
a connection or relationship between two or more facts, ...
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(Definition ofrankandcorrelationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrank correlation

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Therankcorrelationcompares the order of the markers with the true order for that group.
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Spearmanrankcorrelationtests were used to investigate the effects of dissemination timing on seed dormancy ratio.
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Spearmanrankcorrelationwas used to assess correlations between cover values of selected species and species numbers.
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Spearman'srankcorrelationcoefficient between instantaneous growth rates and environmental parameters differed significantly from 0 only for water temperature.
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Spearmanrankcorrelationcoefficients were used to evaluate if the concentration of different sugars was correlated with the importance of the species in the diet.
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An identicalrankcorrelationapproach was used to test the significance of mean intensity of infection (infected eels only) and component population size, with eel rank within packed matrices.
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Spearman's (non-parametric)rankcorrelationtest was used as required.
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Spearman'srankcorrelationwas used because the data were not normally distributed.
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Rankcorrelationgraphs show the same pattern and similar magnitudes when compared to the linear correlation graphs.
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Spearman'srankcorrelationcoefficient was used to examine the pair-wise associations between the intensity of the 4 most prevalent intestinal species between all fish hosts.
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Spearmanrankcorrelationcoefficients were calculated between the values of the seed traits and the adhesivity scores (individual and global).
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Spearman'srankcorrelationwas used to determine whether mean days to removal was correlated with crop size index for each tree.
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Kendallrankcorrelationwas performed to examine possible relationships between multiple marriage and the number of children both fathered and desired by men.
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Spearman'srankcorrelationcoefficient was calculated to test the relationships between epiphyte diversity and biomass.
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Spearman'srankcorrelationcoefficients (rs) between mean moisture content and distance from forest shown for each analysis.
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Spearman'srankcorrelationwas used to test the degree of association between flock variables and fragment area.
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Spearmanrankcorrelationbased on these proportions was used to compare diet compositions of each pair of herbivore species.
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