Detecting Trends Using Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Trento, Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Via Mesiano 77, 38123 Trento, Italy;2. UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department Catchment Hydrology, Theodor-Lieser-Str. 4, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany |
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| Abstract: | Spearman's rank correlation coefficient is a useful tool for exploratory data analysis in environmental forensic investigations. In this application it is used to detect monotonic trends in chemical concentration with time or space. |
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