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Why woud someone use pearson or smearson coefficients vs this new one?
by The_rationalist 5y ago
Why woud someone use pearson or smearson coefficients vs this new one?
- rwilson4 5y agoIf the relationship is linear, I'm guessing a test based on Pearson has greater power.
- mellavora 5y agopower and interpretability. Assuming a linear relationship, if you know the correlation coefficient, you can predict unobserved values of y based on a known x with good accuracy. y = ax + b + error where strong correlation means error is small.
- im3w1l 5y agoSeems likely. The presented coefficient only looks at the ordering of the X-values, and how it relates to the ordering of the Y-values. All other information is thrown away. That's how it can be so general, but it should come at the expense of power.
- emerged 5y agoAh that makes sense intuitively. I was confused how non linear correlation could be detected without knowing anything about the function itself.
- tomrod 5y agoPearson is for affine/linear+intercept relationships. Spearman is for monotonic relationships.
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