http://www.sofastatistics.com/wiki/ 2012-05-17T17:41:25-04:00 http://www.sofastatistics.com/wiki/ http://www.sofastatistics.com/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2012-04-21T17:47:54-04:00 admin http://www.sofastatistics.com/wiki/doku.php?id=help:spearmansr&rev=1335044874&do=diff Contents Statistical Tests Available The Spearman's R Correlation Test (also called the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient) is generally used to look at the (roughly) linear relationship between two ordinal variables e.g. satisfaction ratings for staff and level of staff training. You should never run this test without viewing a scatterplot and visually examining the basic shape of the relationship. The test could indicate a low linear correlation and yet the data could have a very str…