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Rank Correlation
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Rank Correlation
In statistics, the extent to which two rankings match each other. There are various systems to calculate rank correlation. However, rank correlation is expressed on a scale from -1 to +1. A measure of -1 indicates the rankings disagree perfectly (meaning they are opposite one another), while a measure of +1 means they agree perfectly (meaning they are the same). A measure of 0 means the rankings are independent of one another.


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Our study provides evidence that a country's number of vCJD cases correlates with the number of live bovines it imported from the UK from 1980 to 1990 (Spearman rank correlation coefficient [r.
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