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

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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