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Rank-Order Correlation Coefficient

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the most commonly used method of computing a correlation coefficient between the ranks of scores on two variables

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rank-difference correlationrank-difference correlation coefficientrank-order correlation
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Rank-Order Correlation Coefficients
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Rank-Order Correlation Coefficient's
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Rank-Order Correlation Coefficients'