[R] Spearman rank correlation

[David Winsemius]

Rhelp is not here to fill in the gaps in your statistical education. You may want to try CrossValidated, but even there you would be expected to do some searching both of their website and in you textbooks.


On Mar 15, 2013, at 8:16 AM, Zia mel wrote:

> Hi
> 
> If I get a p-value less than 0.05 does that mean there is a
> significant relation between the 2 ranked lists? Sometimes I get a low
> correlation such as 0.3 or even 0.2 and the p-value is so low , such
> as 0.000001 , does that mean it is significant also? and would that be
> interpreted as significant low positive correlation or significant
> moderate positive correlation? Also,can R calculate the results for
> lists > 30 for spearman or I need to shift to pearson correlation in
> that case? and finally what does the (S=) in the results mean?
> 
> Many thanks

David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA