Re: p value for spearman's correlation

[Alan Mead]

    On 12/26/2020 2:00 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 26, 2020 at 11:57 AM Alan Mead <amead2@alanmead.org> wrote:
> > Isn't it a bug if there is a space for p-value and it's blank?
> >       
> Sometimes this means we haven't found or written an implementation of
> the algorithm for calculating it yet. (In this case, I haven't looked.)
>     
    
    Still a bug, right? 
    
    But in this case, if I'm not wrong, then the standard hypothesis
    test applies. So the implementation that calculates the p-value for
    correlation coefficients (which are Pearson r's) in CORR would apply
    to both these statistics (which are Pearson r's) in CROSSTABS.
    
    I think John may be saying that this isn't the best approach. He's
    probably right, but I'm unfamiliar with the issue to which he
    alludes. 
    
    -Alan
    
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