A note on spearman's footrule |
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| Authors: | Ibrahim A Salama Dana Quade |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Business , North Carolina Central University , Durham, 27707, NC;2. Department of Biostatistics , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , 27599, NC |
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| Abstract: | We obtain exact tables of the null distribution of Spearman's footrule for sample sizes n = 4(1)40 by using a certain Markov chain property, and we investigate the adequacy of approximations to the distribution. |
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| Keywords: | Key Words and Phrases Markov chain normal approximation rank correlation |
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