Spearman's rank correlation coefficient

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In statistics, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient or Spearman's ρ is a number ranging from −1 to 1 that indicates how strongly two sets of ranks are correlated. It is used in situations where the ranking of a dataset is important, for instance in sports.

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