Spearman's Rho

Spearman's Rho

1. There was a significant positive [or negative] correlation between predictor variable and criterion variable, Rs=coefficents, N__,p=__. Describe results.

2. describes the degree and direction of the relationship between 2 variables

3. asses the significance of the relationship

4. calculate the difference between ranks on Variable X with Variable Y

   • deals with ranking scores

5. only use when data set ties i.e two/more scores are the same

   • only use when the data is in the form of rank/ if the data are marked non-nominal