spearmanr

Syntax

spearmanr(X, Y)

Arguments

X is a vector/ matrix.

Y is a vector/ matrix.

Details

Calculate the Spearman rank correlation coefficient of X and Y. Null values are ignored in the calculation. Spearman correlation is a non-parametric measure of the monotonicity of the relationship between two data sets. The coefficient varies between -1 and +1, where 0 means no correlation. -1 or +1 means an exact monotonic relationship.

If X or Y is a matrix, apply the function to each column and return a vector.

Examples

$ x=[2013.06.13, 2013.06.14, 2013.06.15]
$ y=1 5 3
$ spearmanr(x, y)
0.5

$ x = [33,21,46,-11,78,47,18,20,-5,66]
$ y = [1,NULL,10,6,10,3,NULL,NULL,5,3]
$ spearmanr(x, y)
0.109109

If X is a matrix, Y can be a vector/matrix with the same number of rows as X.

$ m1 = [34,77,35,-40,-39,-86,49,-55,15,72,NULL,-24,16,20,26,-82,80,-93,-65,99,45,90,44,46]$4:6
$ m2 = [0, 25, 7, 3]
$ spearmanr(m1, m2)
[0.8, -0.4, 0.5, 0.6, -0.8, 0.4]