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• triangleman 12y ago
  The p-value of 0.56 is a joke right?
  • Dylan16807 12y ago
    I read it as rho. (Isn't scientific notation fun like that)
  • the_imp 12y ago
    It's not a p-value, it's Spearman's rho, or rank correlation coefficient. It's a value in [-1,1] and when deviating from zero indicates a statistically dependent relationship: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearman%27s_rank_correlation_coefficient http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spearman%27s_rank_correlation_c...