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author | Rik <octave@nomad.inbox5.com> |
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date | Mon, 03 Jan 2011 21:23:08 -0800 |
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7017 | 1 ## Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007 |
2 ## Kurt Hornik | |
3426 | 3 ## |
3922 | 4 ## This file is part of Octave. |
5 ## | |
6 ## Octave is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it | |
7 ## under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
7016 | 8 ## the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at |
9 ## your option) any later version. | |
3426 | 10 ## |
3922 | 11 ## Octave is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but |
3200 | 12 ## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
13 ## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU | |
3426 | 14 ## General Public License for more details. |
15 ## | |
3200 | 16 ## You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
7016 | 17 ## along with Octave; see the file COPYING. If not, see |
18 ## <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
3200 | 19 |
3453 | 20 ## -*- texinfo -*- |
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21 ## @deftypefn {Function File} {} spearman (@var{x}) |
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22 ## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} spearman (@var{x}, @var{y}) |
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23 ## @cindex Spearman's Rho |
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24 ## Compute Spearman's rank correlation coefficient @var{rho}. |
3200 | 25 ## |
3453 | 26 ## For two data vectors @var{x} and @var{y}, Spearman's @var{rho} is the |
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27 ## correlation coefficient of the ranks of @var{x} and @var{y}. |
3200 | 28 ## |
3453 | 29 ## If @var{x} and @var{y} are drawn from independent distributions, |
30 ## @var{rho} has zero mean and variance @code{1 / (n - 1)}, and is | |
31 ## asymptotically normally distributed. | |
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32 ## |
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33 ## @code{spearman (@var{x})} is equivalent to @code{spearman (@var{x}, |
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34 ## @var{x})}. |
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35 ## @seealso{ranks, kendall} |
3453 | 36 ## @end deftypefn |
3200 | 37 |
5428 | 38 ## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at> |
3456 | 39 ## Description: Spearman's rank correlation rho |
3200 | 40 |
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41 function rho = spearman (x, y = []) |
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3200 | 43 if ((nargin < 1) || (nargin > 2)) |
6046 | 44 print_usage (); |
3200 | 45 endif |
46 | |
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47 if (! (isnumeric (x) && isnumeric (y))) |
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48 error ("spearman: X and Y must be numeric matrices or vectors"); |
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49 endif |
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50 |
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51 if (ndims (x) != 2 || ndims (y) != 2) |
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52 error ("spearman: X and Y must be 2-D matrices or vectors"); |
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53 endif |
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3200 | 55 if (rows (x) == 1) |
56 x = x'; | |
57 endif | |
58 n = rows (x); | |
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3200 | 60 if (nargin == 1) |
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61 rho = corrcoef (ranks (x)); |
3200 | 62 else |
63 if (rows (y) == 1) | |
64 y = y'; | |
65 endif | |
66 if (rows (y) != n) | |
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67 error ("spearman: X and Y must have the same number of observations"); |
3200 | 68 endif |
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69 rho = corrcoef (ranks (x), ranks (y)); |
3200 | 70 endif |
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3200 | 72 endfunction |
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74 %% Test input validation |
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75 %!error spearman (); |
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76 %!error spearman (1, 2, 3); |
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77 %!error spearman ([true, true]); |
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78 %!error spearman (ones(1,2), [true, true]); |
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79 %!error spearman (ones (2,2,2)); |
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80 %!error spearman (ones (2,2), ones (2,2,2)); |
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81 %!error spearman (ones (2,2), ones (3,2)); |