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Note on an alternant suggested by statistical theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2008

B. Babington Smith
B. Babington Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of St Andrews
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The determinant to be described made its appearance in the course of a search for the frequency distribution of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient (2). This name is given to the form, , taken by the product moment correlation coefficient in the special case where the two variables are separate arrangements of the first n natural numbers.

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Research Article
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Edinburgh Mathematical Notes , Volume 32 , January 1940 , pp. xix - xxii
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Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1940

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1Dodgson, , Rev. C, L., “On condensation of determinants.” Proc. Roy. Soc, Lond., 32, 150.Google Scholar
2Kendall, M. G., Kendall, S. F. H. and Babington Smith, B., “The distribution of Spearmans coefficient of rank correlation ……” Biometrica, 32., Pts. iii. and iv., p. 251.Google Scholar