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## -*- texinfo -*-
## @deftypefn  {Function File} {} spearman (@var{x})
## @deftypefnx {Function File} {} spearman (@var{x}, @var{y})
## @cindex Spearman's Rho
## Compute Spearman's rank correlation coefficient @var{rho}.
##
## For two data vectors @var{x} and @var{y}, Spearman's @var{rho} is the
## correlation coefficient of the ranks of @var{x} and @var{y}.
##
## If @var{x} and @var{y} are drawn from independent distributions,
## @var{rho} has zero mean and variance @code{1 / (n - 1)}, and is
## asymptotically normally distributed.
##
## @code{spearman (@var{x})} is equivalent to @code{spearman (@var{x},
## @var{x})}.
## @seealso{ranks, kendall}
## @end deftypefn

## Author: KH <Kurt.Hornik@wu-wien.ac.at>
## Description: Spearman's rank correlation rho

function rho = spearman (x, y = [])

  if (nargin < 1 || nargin > 2)
    print_usage ();
  endif

  if (   ! (isnumeric (x) || islogical (x))
      || ! (isnumeric (y) || islogical (y)))
    error ("spearman: X and Y must be numeric matrices or vectors");
  endif

  if (ndims (x) != 2 || ndims (y) != 2)
    error ("spearman: X and Y must be 2-D matrices or vectors");
  endif

  if (isrow (x))
    x = x.';
  endif

  if (nargin == 1)
    rho = corr (ranks (x));
  else
    if (isrow (y))
      y = y.';
    endif
    if (rows (x) != rows (y))
      error ("spearman: X and Y must have the same number of observations");
    endif
    rho = corr (ranks (x), ranks (y));
  endif

  ## Restore class cleared by ranks
  if (isa (x, "single") || isa (y, "single"))
    rho = single (rho);
  endif

endfunction


%!test
%! x = 1:10;
%! y = exp (x);
%! assert (spearman (x,y), 1, 5*eps);
%! assert (spearman (x,-y), -1, 5*eps);

%!assert (spearman ([1 2 3], [-1 1 -2]), -0.5, 5*eps)

%% Test input validation
%!error spearman ()
%!error spearman (1, 2, 3)
%!error spearman (['A'; 'B'])
%!error spearman (ones (1,2), {1, 2})
%!error spearman (ones (2,2,2))
%!error spearman (ones (2,2), ones (2,2,2))
%!error spearman (ones (2,2), ones (3,2))