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1 ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997 Kurt Hornik |
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2 ## |
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3 ## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify |
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4 ## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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5 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) |
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6 ## any later version. |
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7 ## |
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8 ## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
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9 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
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10 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU |
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11 ## General Public License for more details. |
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12 ## |
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13 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
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14 ## along with this file. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, |
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15 ## 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. |
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16 |
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17 ## usage: spearman (x [, y]) |
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18 ## |
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19 ## Computes Spearman's rank correlation coefficient rho for each of the |
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20 ## variables specified by the input arguments. |
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21 ## |
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22 ## For matrices, each row is an observation and each column a variable; |
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23 ## vectors are always observations and may be row or column vectors. |
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24 ## |
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25 ## spearman (x) is equivalent to spearman (x, x). |
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26 ## |
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27 ## For two data vectors x and y, Spearman's rho is the correlation of |
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28 ## the ranks of x and y. |
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29 ## |
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30 ## If x and y are drawn from independent distributions, rho has zero |
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31 ## mean and variance 1 / (n - 1), and is asymptotically normally |
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32 ## distributed. |
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33 |
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34 ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@ci.tuwien.ac.at> |
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35 ## Description: Spearman's rank correlation rho |
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36 |
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37 function rho = spearman (x, y) |
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38 |
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39 if ((nargin < 1) || (nargin > 2)) |
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40 usage ("spearman (x [, y])"); |
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41 endif |
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42 |
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43 if (rows (x) == 1) |
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44 x = x'; |
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45 endif |
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46 n = rows (x); |
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47 |
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48 if (nargin == 1) |
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49 rho = cor (ranks (x)); |
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50 else |
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51 if (rows (y) == 1) |
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52 y = y'; |
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53 endif |
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54 if (rows (y) != n) |
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55 error (["spearman: ", ... |
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56 "x and y must have the same number of observations"]); |
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57 endif |
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58 rho = cor (ranks (x), ranks (y)); |
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59 endif |
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60 |
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61 endfunction |